Bill Text: TX HB49 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 4th Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to unlawful employment practices with respect to required disclosure of an individual's vaccination status.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-11-07 - Filed [HB49 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB49-Introduced.html
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| By: Isaac | H.B. No. 49 | |
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| relating to unlawful employment practices with respect to required | ||
| disclosure of an individual's vaccination status. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 21, Labor Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter H-1 to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER H-1. PRIVACY OF VACCINATION STATUS | ||
| Sec. 21.421. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "COVID-19" means the 2019 novel coronavirus | ||
| disease and any variants of the disease. | ||
| (2) "Employer" means a person who employs one or more | ||
| employees. | ||
| Sec. 21.422. RIGHT TO PRIVACY OF VACCINATION STATUS. (a) | ||
| An individual has the right to keep the individual's vaccination | ||
| status private, including COVID-19 vaccination status, and may not | ||
| be required to disclose that information to the individual's | ||
| employer or an employer to whom the individual has applied for an | ||
| employment position unless the disclosure is required by state or | ||
| federal law. | ||
| (b) An employer commits an unlawful employment practice if | ||
| the employer fails or refuses to hire, discharges, or otherwise | ||
| discriminates against an individual with respect to the | ||
| compensation or the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment | ||
| because the individual exercises the right described by Subsection | ||
| (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter H-1, Chapter 21, Labor Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, applies only to an unlawful employment practice that | ||
| occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
