Bill Text: TX HB109 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to exemptions from certain vaccination requirements.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-10-12 - Referred to State Affairs [HB109 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB109-Introduced.html
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| By: Cain | H.B. No. 109 | |
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| relating to exemptions from certain vaccination requirements. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 21, Labor Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter H-1 to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER H-1. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON EXEMPTION FROM REQUIRED | ||
| COVID-19 VACCINATION | ||
| Sec. 21.421. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "COVID-19" | ||
| means the 2019 novel coronavirus disease. | ||
| Sec. 21.422. EXEMPTION FROM REQUIRED COVID-19 VACCINATION. | ||
| An employer, labor organization, or employment agency shall allow | ||
| an individual to claim an exemption from a required COVID-19 | ||
| vaccination based on a medical condition or reasons of conscience, | ||
| including a religious belief. | ||
| Sec. 21.423. PROHIBITED DISCRIMINATION BASED ON EXEMPTION | ||
| FROM REQUIRED COVID-19 VACCINATION. (a) An employer commits an | ||
| unlawful employment practice if the employer fails or refuses to | ||
| hire, discharges, or otherwise discriminates against an individual | ||
| with respect to the compensation or the terms, conditions, or | ||
| privileges of employment because the individual claims an exemption | ||
| described by Section 21.422. | ||
| (b) A labor organization commits an unlawful employment | ||
| practice if the labor organization excludes or expels from | ||
| membership or otherwise discriminates against an individual | ||
| because the individual claims an exemption described by Section | ||
| 21.422. | ||
| (c) An employment agency commits an unlawful employment | ||
| practice if the employment agency classifies or refers for | ||
| employment, fails or refuses to refer for employment, or otherwise | ||
| discriminates against an individual because the individual claims | ||
| an exemption described by Section 21.422. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 224.002(c), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) The policy must [ |
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| individual to be exempt from the required vaccines based on reasons | ||
| of conscience, including a religious belief. | ||
| SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an unlawful employment practice that occurs 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
