Bill Text: TX HB577 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to adopt or enforce certain regulations regarding whether a private employer may obtain or consider an employment applicant's or employee's criminal history record information.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 76-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB577 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB577-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to adopt or enforce certain regulations regarding whether a private employer may obtain or consider an employment applicant's or employee's criminal history record information.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 76-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB577 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB577-Introduced.html
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By: Workman | H.B. No. 577 |
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relating to the authority of a political subdivision to adopt or | ||
enforce certain regulations regarding whether a private employer | ||
may obtain or consider an employment applicant's or employee's | ||
criminal history record information. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Title 3, Labor Code, is amended by adding Chapter | ||
106 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 106. CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION OF EMPLOYMENT | ||
APPLICANT OR EMPLOYEE | ||
Sec. 106.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "Applicant" means a person who has made an oral or | ||
written application with a private employer, or has sent a resume or | ||
other correspondence to a private employer, indicating an interest | ||
in employment. | ||
(2) "Criminal history record information" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 411.082, Government Code. | ||
Sec. 106.002. CERTAIN LOCAL REGULATION OF PRIVATE EMPLOYERS | ||
PROHIBITED. A political subdivision of this state may not adopt or | ||
enforce any ordinance or other local regulation that prohibits, | ||
limits, or otherwise regulates a private employer's ability to | ||
request, consider, or take employment action based on the criminal | ||
history record information of an applicant or employee. | ||
Sec. 106.003. NONAPPLICABILITY. This chapter does not | ||
prevent a political subdivision of this state from adopting or | ||
enforcing an ordinance or other local regulation relating to the | ||
access to or consideration of the criminal history record | ||
information of an individual: | ||
(1) entering into a contract or other agreement with | ||
the political subdivision; | ||
(2) receiving a grant from the political subdivision; | ||
(3) seeking a license, permit, or other authorization | ||
to conduct business from the political subdivision; or | ||
(4) conducting business with or under the regulatory | ||
authority of the political subdivision. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |