Bill Text: TX HB228 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to unlawful employment practices regarding discrimination in payment of compensation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-06 - Left pending in committee [HB228 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB228-Introduced.html
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By: Thompson of Harris | H.B. No. 228 |
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relating to unlawful employment practices regarding discrimination | ||
in payment of compensation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.202(a), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) A complaint under this subchapter must be filed not | ||
later than the 180th day after the date the alleged unlawful | ||
employment practice occurred. With respect to an allegation of | ||
discrimination in payment of compensation in violation of this | ||
chapter, an unlawful employment practice occurs each time: | ||
(1) a discriminatory compensation decision or other | ||
practice is adopted; | ||
(2) an individual becomes subject to a discriminatory | ||
compensation decision or other practice; or | ||
(3) an individual is adversely affected by application | ||
of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, | ||
including each time wages affected wholly or partly by the decision | ||
or other practice are paid. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 21.258, Labor Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) Liability may accrue, and an aggrieved person may obtain | ||
relief as provided by this subchapter, including recovery of back | ||
pay for the period allowed under this section, if the unlawful | ||
employment practices that have occurred during the period for | ||
filing a complaint are similar or related to unlawful employment | ||
practices with regard to discrimination in payment of compensation | ||
that occurred outside the period for filing a complaint. | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a discriminatory compensation decision or another unlawful | ||
employment practice with regard to discrimination in payment of | ||
compensation that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |