Bill Text: TX SB15 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of private employers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
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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