Bill Text: TX HB1015 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on receipt of state money by businesses that implement COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-02 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1015 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1015-Introduced.html
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| By: Vasut | H.B. No. 1015 | |
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| relating to a prohibition on receipt of state money by businesses | ||
| that implement COVID-19 vaccination requirements. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 161, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 161.0086 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.0086. PROHIBITED RECEIPT OF STATE MONEY BY CERTAIN | ||
| BUSINESSES. (a) In this section, "COVID-19" means the 2019 novel | ||
| coronavirus disease. | ||
| (b) A business in this state that requires the business's | ||
| customers, employees, vendors, or contractors to be vaccinated | ||
| against COVID-19 is not eligible to receive state grant money or | ||
| enter into a contract payable with state money. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 161.0086, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to a state grant awarded to or a | ||
| contract entered into by a business in this state on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
