Bill Text: TX HB2015 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 2015 (Prior Session Legislation)

TX State Legislature page for HB2015

Bill Title: Relating to the proper classification of workers performing services in connection with governmental contracts; providing a penalty.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 1/1/14 [HB2015 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2015-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 2015




	AN ACT
	relating to the proper classification of workers performing
	services in connection with governmental contracts; providing a
	penalty.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 214, Labor Code, is amended by adding
	Section 214.008 to read as follows:
	Sec. 214.008. MISCLASSIFICATION OF CERTAIN WORKERS;
	PENALTY. (a) A person who contracts with a governmental entity to
	provide a service as defined by Section 2155.001, Government Code,
	shall properly classify, as an employee or independent contractor
	in accordance with Chapter 201, any individual the person directly
	retains and compensates for services performed in connection with
	the contract.
	(b) In this subsection, "subcontractor" means a person
	directly retained and compensated by a person who contracts with a
	governmental entity to provide a service as defined by Section
	2155.001, Government Code. A subcontractor shall properly
	classify, as an employee or independent contractor in accordance
	with Chapter 201, any individual the subcontractor directly retains
	and compensates for services performed in connection with the
	contract for which the subcontractor is retained.
	(c) A person who fails to properly classify an individual as
	required by Subsection (a) or (b) shall pay to the commission a
	penalty equal to $200 for each individual that the person has not
	properly classified.
	(d) The commission may not take action to collect a penalty
	under this section from a person after the third anniversary of the
	date on which the violation occurred.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2014.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2015 was passed by the House on May 4,
	2013, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2015 was passed by the Senate on May
	17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor