Bill Text: TX HB262 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibited adverse personnel action against a school district employee who in good faith reports child abuse or neglect.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-21 - Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues [HB262 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB262-Introduced.html
| By: Neave | H.B. No. 262 | |
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| relating to prohibited adverse personnel action against a school | ||
| district employee who in good faith reports child abuse or neglect. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 261.110, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsections (b-1) and | ||
| (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Adverse personnel action" means an action that | ||
| affects an employee's compensation, promotion, transfer, work | ||
| assignment, or performance evaluation, or any other action that | ||
| would dissuade a reasonable employee from making or supporting a | ||
| report of abuse or neglect under Section 261.101. | ||
| (2) "Professional"[ |
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| assigned by Section 261.101(b). | ||
| (b-1) A school district may not suspend or terminate the | ||
| employment of, discriminate against, or take any other adverse | ||
| personnel action against a district employee who in good faith: | ||
| (1) reports child abuse or neglect to: | ||
| (A) the employee's supervisor; | ||
| (B) an administrator of the facility where the | ||
| employee is employed; | ||
| (C) a state regulatory agency; or | ||
| (D) a law enforcement agency; or | ||
| (2) initiates or cooperates with an investigation or | ||
| proceeding by a governmental entity relating to an allegation of | ||
| child abuse or neglect. | ||
| (c) A person, including a school district employee, whose | ||
| employment is suspended or terminated, [ |
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| discriminated against, or who suffers any other adverse employment | ||
| action in violation of this section may sue for injunctive relief, | ||
| damages, or both if, in violation of this section, the employee: | ||
| (1) is suspended or terminated from employment; | ||
| (2) i | ||
| s discriminated against; or | ||
| (3) suffers any other adverse personnel action. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an adverse personnel | ||
| action taken by an employer against an employee that occurs on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. An adverse personnel action | ||
| taken by an employer against an employee that occurs before that | ||
| date is governed by the law in effect on the date the action | ||
| occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017. | ||
