Bill Text: TX HB1419 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1419 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a report to the legislature by the Texas Workforce Commission civil rights division concerning wage discrimination.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-24 - Left pending in committee [HB1419 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1419-Introduced.html

	83R7382 MMC-D

	By: Thompson of Harris	H.B. No. 1419



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a report to the legislature by the Texas Workforce
	Commission civil rights division concerning wage discrimination.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 21, Labor Code, is amended
	by adding Section 21.505 to read as follows:
	Sec. 21.505. WAGE DISCRIMINATION REPORT. (a) The
	commission shall submit a report to the legislature not later than
	December 31 of each even-numbered year regarding the extent and
	nature of wage discrimination, based on wage and demographic
	information available from existing sources and collected under
	this section, including information obtained from:
	(1) other divisions of the Texas Workforce Commission,
	the workers' compensation division of the Texas Department of
	Insurance, and the comptroller; and
	(2) complaints received by the commission.
	(b) The commission shall use the wage and demographic
	information collected under Subsection (a) for statistical and
	research purposes and shall publish studies, analyses, reports, and
	surveys based on that information as considered appropriate by the
	commission. The commission may request and receive appropriate
	information from additional state agencies.
	(c) In preparing the report required under Subsection (a),
	the commission shall adopt criteria determining whether a job is
	dominated by employees of a particular race, color, disability,
	religion, sex, national origin, or age. The criteria must include:
	(1) whether the job has ever been formally classified
	as a "male" or "female" job or a "white" or "minority" job;
	(2) whether there is a history of discrimination
	against persons in a protected class with regard to wages,
	assignment, access to jobs, or other terms and conditions of
	employment; and
	(3) the demographic composition of the workforce in
	equivalent jobs.
	(d) The criteria adopted under Subsection (c) may include a
	list of jobs.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.