Bill Text: TX HB121 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 121 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the regulation by a municipality or county of certain employment benefits and policies.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to State Affairs [HB121 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB121-Introduced.html

	88R1684 RDS-F

	By: Vasut	H.B. No. 121



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the regulation by a municipality or county of certain
	employment benefits and policies.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title 2, Labor Code, is amended by
	adding Chapter 83 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 83. PROHIBITION AGAINST LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT
	BENEFITS AND POLICIES
	Sec. 83.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
	(1) "Employee" means an individual who is employed by
	an employer for compensation.
	(2) "Employer" means a person who employs one or more
	employees.
	(3) "Employment benefit" means anything of value that
	an employee receives from an employer beyond regular salary or
	wages.
	Sec. 83.002. PROHIBITION AGAINST MUNICIPALITY OR COUNTY
	REQUIRING CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS OR POLICIES. (a) A
	municipality or county may not adopt or enforce an ordinance,
	order, rule, regulation, or policy requiring any terms of
	employment that exceed or conflict with federal or state law
	relating to any form of employment leave, hiring practices,
	employment benefits, scheduling practices, or other terms of
	employment.
	(b) Any provision of an ordinance, order, rule, regulation,
	or policy that violates Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable.
	(c) This chapter does not affect:
	(1) the Texas Minimum Wage Act under Chapter 62; or
	(2) a contract or agreement relating to terms of
	employment voluntarily entered into between a private employer or
	entity and a governmental entity.
	SECTION 2. Chapter 83, Labor Code, as added by this Act,
	applies to an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy adopted
	before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.