Bill Text: TX HB83 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to administrative penalties assessed by the Texas Workforce Commission against certain employers for failure to pay wages.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-27 - Considered in Calendars [HB83 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB83-Introduced.html
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| By: Romero, Jr. | H.B. No. 83 | |
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| relating to administrative penalties assessed by the Texas | ||
| Workforce Commission against certain employers for failure to pay | ||
| wages. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 61.053, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) If the commission examiner, a wage claim appeal | ||
| tribunal, or the commission determines that an employer acted in | ||
| bad faith in not paying wages as required by this chapter, the | ||
| examiner, tribunal, or commission, in addition to ordering the | ||
| payment of the wages, shall [ |
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| against the employer. | ||
| (a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a), acts that constitute | ||
| bad faith by an employer include: | ||
| (1) a history of previous violations of this chapter; | ||
| (2) failure to pay wages to an employee as required by | ||
| this chapter as an act of discrimination or retaliation against the | ||
| employee; | ||
| (3) failure to pay wages as required by this chapter to | ||
| multiple employees at the same time; | ||
| (4) failure to pay wages to an employee as required by | ||
| this chapter knowing that the failure was a violation of state law; | ||
| or | ||
| (5) actions showing reckless disregard of the | ||
| requirements of this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
