Bill Text: TX HB2495 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the considerations when determining whether a person is an employee of a motor carrier or an independent contractor.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-03 - Left pending in committee [HB2495 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2495-Introduced.html
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| By: Thompson of Brazoria | H.B. No. 2495 | |
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| relating to the considerations when determining whether a person is | ||
| an employee of a motor carrier or an independent contractor. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle F, Title 7, Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 644A to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 644A. MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY IMPROVEMENT: EMPLOYMENT STATUS | ||
| Sec. 644A.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Commercial motor vehicle" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 644.001. | ||
| (2) "Motor carrier" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 643.001. | ||
| (3) "Motor carrier safety improvement" means any | ||
| device, equipment, software, technology, procedure, training, | ||
| policy, program, or operational practice reasonably intended to | ||
| improve or facilitate: | ||
| (A) compliance with traffic safety or motor | ||
| carrier safety laws; | ||
| (B) safety of a motor vehicle; | ||
| (C) safety of an operator of a motor vehicle; and | ||
| (D) safety of third-party users of public | ||
| roadways. | ||
| Sec. 644A.002. EMPLOYMENT STATUS. The deployment, | ||
| implementation, or use of a motor carrier safety improvement on a | ||
| person's commercial motor vehicle by or at the request of a motor | ||
| carrier, including through contract with a motor carrier, may not | ||
| be considered when determining whether the person is an employee of | ||
| the motor carrier or an independent contractor for purposes of | ||
| state law. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
