Section 45168.

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the governing board of each school district when drawing an order for the salary or wage payment due to a classified employee of the district may, without charge, reduce the order by the amount which it has been requested in a revocable written authorization by the employee to deduct for the payment of dues in, or for any other service provided by, any bona fide organization, of which he is a member, whose membership consists, in whole or in part, of employees of such district, and which has as one of its objectives improvements in the terms or conditions of employment for the advancement of the welfare of such employees.

The revocable written authorization shall remain in effect until expressly revoked in writing by the employee. Whenever there is an increase in the amount required for such payment to the organization, the employee organization shall provide the employee with adequate and necessary data on such increase at a time sufficiently prior to the effective date of the increase to allow the employee an opportunity to revoke the written authorization, if desired. The employee organization shall provide the public school employer with notification of the increase at a time sufficiently prior to the effective date of the increase to allow the employer an opportunity to make the necessary changes and with a copy of the notification of the increase which has been sent to all concerned employees.

Upon receipt of a properly signed authorization for payroll deductions by a classified employee pursuant to this section, the governing board shall reduce such employee's pay warrant by the designated amount in the next pay period following the closing date for receipt of changes in pay warrants.

The governing board shall, on the same designated date of each month, draw its order upon the funds of the district in favor of the organization designated by the employee for an amount equal to the total of the respective deductions made with respect to such organization during the pay period.

The governing board shall not require the completion of a new deduction authorization when a dues increase has been effected or at any other time without the express approval of the concerned employee organization.

(b) The governing board of each school district when drawing an order for the salary or wage payment due to a classified employee of the district may, without charge, reduce the order for the payment of dues to, or for any other service provided by, the certified or recognized organization of which the classified employee is a member, or for the payment of service fees to the certified or recognized organization as required by an organizational security arrangement between the exclusive representative and a public school employer as provided under Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code. However, the organizational security arrangement shall provide that any employee may pay service fees directly to the certified or recognized employee organization in lieu of having such service fees deducted from the salary or wage order.

(c) This section shall apply to districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 6 (commencing with Section 45240) of this chapter.

(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1175, Sec. 1.5.)