Bill Text: TX HB950 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to unlawful employment practices regarding discrimination in payment of compensation.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-2)
Status: (Vetoed) 2013-06-14 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB950 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB950-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 950 |
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rela | ||
ting to unlawful employment practices regarding discrimination | ||
in payment of compensation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.202(a), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) A complaint under this subchapter must be filed not | ||
later than the 180th day after the date the alleged unlawful | ||
employment practice occurred. With respect to an allegation of | ||
discrimination in payment of compensation in violation of this | ||
chapter, an unlawful employment practice occurs each time: | ||
(1) a discriminatory compensation decision or other | ||
practice is adopted; | ||
(2) an individual becomes subject to a discriminatory | ||
compensation decision or other practice; or | ||
(3) an individual is adversely affected by application | ||
of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, | ||
including each time wages affected wholly or partly by such a | ||
decision or other practice are paid. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 21.258, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(c) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, | ||
liability [ |
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date more than two years before the date a complaint is filed with | ||
the commission. Liability may accrue, and an aggrieved person may | ||
obtain relief as provided by this subchapter, including recovery of | ||
back pay for up to two years preceding the date of filing the | ||
complaint, if the unlawful employment practices that have occurred | ||
during the period for filing a complaint are similar or related to | ||
unlawful employment practices with regard to discrimination in | ||
payment of compensation that occurred outside the period for filing | ||
a complaint. | ||
(d) Interim earnings, workers' compensation benefits, and | ||
unemployment compensation benefits received operate to reduce the | ||
back pay otherwise allowable under this section. | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
discriminatory compensation decisions or other unlawful employment | ||
practices with regard to discrimination in payment of compensation | ||
made on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 950 was passed by the House on April | ||
25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 79, Nays 50, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 950 on May 24, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 78, Nays 61, 2 | ||
present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 950 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 16, Nays | ||
15. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |