Bill Text: TX HB2443 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the electronic submission of a wage claim to the Texas Workforce Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2443 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2443-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2443 |
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relating to the electronic submission of a wage claim to the Texas | ||
Workforce Commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.051(d), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) The employee may file the wage claim: | ||
(1) in person at an office of the commission; | ||
(2) by mailing the claim to an address designated by | ||
the commission; | ||
(3) by faxing the claim to a fax number designated by | ||
the commission; [ |
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(4) electronically in a manner designated by the | ||
commission by rule; or | ||
(5) by any other means adopted by the commission by | ||
rule. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2017, the Texas | ||
Workforce Commission shall adopt rules for the administration of | ||
Section 61.051(d), Labor Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a wage claim that is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on | ||
or after January 1, 2018. A wage claim filed before that date is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date that the claim was filed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2443 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2443 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |