Bill Text: TX HB609 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the liability of a business owner or operator arising from the exposure of an individual to a pandemic disease.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB609 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB609-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 609 |
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relating to the liability of a business owner or operator arising | ||
from the exposure of an individual to a pandemic disease. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 148.003, Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, is amended by adding Subsection (k) to read as follows: | ||
(k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a | ||
business owner or operator that does not require employees or | ||
contractors of the business to be vaccinated against a pandemic | ||
disease is not liable for injury or death caused by the exposure of | ||
an individual to the pandemic disease through an employee or | ||
contractor of the business. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 148.003(k), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a cause of action that | ||
accrues on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 609 was passed by the House on April | ||
25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 104, Nays 39, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 609 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
11, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 19, Nays 11. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |