Bill Text: TX HB169 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on certain governmental contracts with companies that require employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-10-13 - Referred to State Affairs [HB169 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB169-Introduced.html
By: Toth | H.B. No. 169 |
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relating to a prohibition on certain governmental contracts with | ||
companies that require employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle F, Title 10, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 2275 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 2275. MANDATORY COVID-19 VACCINATIONS PROHIBITED | ||
Sec. 2275.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "Company" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
808.001. | ||
(2) "Political subdivision" means a county, | ||
municipality, school district, special purpose district, or other | ||
subdivision of state government that has jurisdiction limited to a | ||
geographic portion of the state. | ||
(3) "State agency" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
609.001. | ||
Sec. 2275.002. PROVISION REQUIRED IN CONTRACT. A state | ||
agency or political subdivision may not enter into a contract with a | ||
company for goods or services unless the contract contains a | ||
written verification from the company that it does not, and will not | ||
during the term of the contract, require, as a condition of | ||
employment, an employee to receive any COVID-19 vaccination. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 2275, Government Code, as added by this | ||
Act, applies only to a contract entered into on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. A contract entered into before that | ||
date is governed by the law in effect on the date the contract was | ||
entered into, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |