Bill Text: TX HB1855 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to restrictions on hours of employment for children; creating criminal offenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1855 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1855-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Bowers, Allen, Beckley, et al. | H.B. No. 1855 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1855: | |||
By: Romero, Jr. | C.S.H.B. No. 1855 |
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relating to restrictions on hours of employment for children; | ||
creating criminal offenses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 51.013, Labor Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.013. HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT; HARDSHIP EXEMPTION; | ||
FAMILY EMPLOYMENT EXEMPTION. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 51.013, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a), (b), and (c) and adding Subsections | ||
(a-1), (b-1), and (e) to read as follows: | ||
(a) A person commits an offense if the person permits a | ||
child who is 14 or 15 years of age and who is employed by the person | ||
to work more than: | ||
(1) eight hours in one day; [ |
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(2) 48 hours in one week; or | ||
(3) five days in one week. | ||
(a-1) A person commits an offense if the person permits a | ||
child who is 16 years of age and who is employed by the person to | ||
work more than: | ||
(1) 10 hours in one day; | ||
(2) 54 hours in one week; or | ||
(3) six days in one week. | ||
(b) A person commits an offense if the person permits a | ||
child who is 14 or 15 years of age, is employed by the person, and is | ||
enrolled in a term of a public or private school to work: | ||
(1) between the hours of 7 [ |
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day that is followed by a school day; or | ||
(2) between the hours of 11 p.m. [ |
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a.m. on a day that is not followed by a school day. | ||
(b-1) A person commits an offense if the person permits a | ||
child who is 16 years of age, is employed by the person, and is | ||
enrolled in a term of a public or private school to work between the | ||
hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. on a day that is followed by a school | ||
day. | ||
(c) A person commits an offense if the person permits a | ||
child who is 14 or 15 years of age, is employed by the person, and is | ||
not enrolled in summer school to work between the hours of 11 p.m. | ||
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recessed for the summer. | ||
(e) This section does not apply if: | ||
(1) the child is a member of the person's family or | ||
household, as those terms are defined by Chapter 71, Family Code; | ||
and | ||
(2) the person employs not more than 50 employees, | ||
including the child. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |