Bill Text: TX SB15 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of private employers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-09 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB15 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB15-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Creighton, Buckingham, Campbell | S.B. No. 15 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed February 12, 2019; February 14, 2019, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources & | ||
| Economic Development; February 25, 2019, rereferred to Committee | ||
| on State Affairs; March 4, 2019, reported adversely, with | ||
| favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, | ||
| Nays 1; March 4, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 15 | By: Creighton | |
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| relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of | ||
| private employers. | ||
| 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. PROHIBITION AGAINST LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT | ||
| BENEFITS AND POLICIES | ||
| 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. | ||
| (3) "Employee" means an individual who is employed by | ||
| an employer for compensation. | ||
| (4) "Employer" means a person who employs one or more | ||
| employees. | ||
| (5) "Employment benefit" means anything of value that | ||
| an employee receives from an employer in addition to monetary | ||
| compensation. | ||
| Sec. 106.002. EMPLOYMENT LEAVE, EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, AND | ||
| OTHER TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT. (a) A political subdivision of this | ||
| state may not adopt or enforce an ordinance, order, rule, | ||
| regulation, or policy regulating a private employer's terms of | ||
| employment relating to: | ||
| (1) any form of employment leave, including paid days | ||
| off from work for holidays, sick leave, vacation, and personal | ||
| necessity; | ||
| (2) employment benefits other than employment leave, | ||
| including health, disability, retirement, profit-sharing, death, | ||
| and group accidental death and dismemberment benefits; or | ||
| (3) scheduling practices. | ||
| (b) An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that | ||
| violates Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable. | ||
| Sec. 106.003. CONSIDERATION OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD | ||
| INFORMATION OF EMPLOYMENT APPLICANT OR EMPLOYEE. A political | ||
| subdivision of this state may not adopt or enforce any ordinance, | ||
| order, rule, regulation, or policy 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. | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 106, Labor Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| applies to an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy adopted | ||
| before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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