Bill Text: TX HB165 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to employer civil liability for COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-10-12 - Filed [HB165 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB165-Introduced.html
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| By: Slaton | H.B. No. 165 | |
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| relating to employer civil liability for COVID-19 vaccine | ||
| requirements. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Title 4, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 100B to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 100B. VACCINATION LIABILITY | ||
| Sec. 100B.001. EMPLOYER LIABILITY FOR COVID-19 VACCINE | ||
| REQUIREMENT. (a) In this section, "immediate family member" means: | ||
| (1) a person related to an employee within the first | ||
| degree of consanguinity or affinity, as determined by Chapter 573, | ||
| Government Code; and | ||
| (2) an employee's sibling. | ||
| (b) An employee or the immediate family member of an | ||
| incapacitated or deceased employee may bring an action against the | ||
| employee's employer for damages incurred by the employee's injury | ||
| or death sustained as a result of the employer requiring the | ||
| employee to receive a vaccine against the 2019 novel coronavirus | ||
| disease (COVID-19) as a condition of employment. | ||
| (c) A court may award a claimant who prevails in an action | ||
| brought under this section reasonable attorney's fees and costs | ||
| incurred in bringing the action. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 100B.001, Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, applies to a cause of action that | ||
| accrues before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
