Bill Text: TX HB27 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to protection of employers from liability and certain other penalties in connection with the provision of employee benefits.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to State Affairs [HB27 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB27-Introduced.html
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| By: Goodwin | H.B. No. 27 | |
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| relating to protection of employers from liability and certain | ||
| other penalties in connection with the provision of employee | ||
| benefits. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Title 6, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 142B to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 142B. ACTIONS ARISING FROM PROVISION OF EMPLOYEE BENEFITS | ||
| Sec. 142B.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Employee" means a person who, for compensation, | ||
| performs services for an employer under a written or oral contract, | ||
| whether express or implied. | ||
| (2) "Employee benefit" means a benefit provided in | ||
| connection with employment other than wages. The term includes a | ||
| payment for the costs associated with receiving a health care | ||
| service in another state. | ||
| Sec. 142B.002. LIMITATION ON CERTAIN ACTIONS ARISING FROM | ||
| PROVISION OF EMPLOYEE BENEFITS. (a) Notwithstanding any other | ||
| law, a civil action may not be brought and a disciplinary action may | ||
| not be taken against an employer based solely on the employer's | ||
| choice to offer or provide a particular employee benefit. | ||
| (b) This section does not create a cause of action or expand | ||
| an existing cause of action. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 142B.002, Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an employee benefit | ||
| provided on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
