Bill Text: TX HB4623 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition against the creation of a fund and the use of state money by a state elected official or a state elected official's staff to settle or pay a sexual harassment claim made against a state elected official or the state elected official's staff.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Referred to State Affairs [HB4623 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4623-Engrossed.html
| By: Meyer, Middleton, Sanford, Noble, Neave, | H.B. No. 4623 | |
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| relating to a prohibition against the creation of a fund and the use | ||
| of state money by a state elected official or a state elected | ||
| official's staff to settle or pay a sexual harassment claim made | ||
| against a state elected official or the state elected official's | ||
| staff. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 3, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 307 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 307. PROHIBITION ON FUND CREATION AND USE OF STATE MONEY BY | ||
| ELECTED OFFICIAL OR ELECTED OFFICIAL'S STAFF TO SETTLE OR PAY | ||
| SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS | ||
| Sec. 307.001. PROHIBITION ON FUND CREATION AND USE OF STATE | ||
| MONEY BY STATE ELECTED OFFICIAL OR STATE ELECTED OFFICIAL'S STAFF | ||
| TO SETTLE OR PAY SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS. The legislature may not | ||
| create a fund or permit the use of state money by a state elected | ||
| official or the state elected official's staff to settle or | ||
| otherwise pay a sexual harassment claim made against a state | ||
| elected official or a member of the state elected official's staff. | ||
| A state elected official or a state elected official's staff is | ||
| personally liable for any claim due to their misconduct. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
