Bill Text: TX SB2485 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of certain employment benefits provided by private employers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB2485 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2485-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of certain employment benefits provided by private employers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB2485 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2485-Introduced.html
By: Creighton | S.B. No. 2485 | |
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relating to the regulation by a political subdivision of certain | ||
employment benefits. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title 2, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
adding Chapter 83 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 83. LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES | ||
Sec. 83.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "Employee" means an individual who is employed by | ||
an employer for compensation. | ||
(2) "Employer" means a person who employs one or more | ||
employees. | ||
(3) "Employment benefit" means anything of value that | ||
an employee receives from an employer in addition to monetary | ||
compensation. | ||
Sec. 83.002. PROHIBITED LOCAL REGULATIONS. (a) A | ||
political subdivision of this state may not adopt or enforce any | ||
ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy regulating a private | ||
employer's terms of employment relating to employment benefits | ||
other than employment leave, including health, disability, | ||
retirement, profit-sharing, death, and group accidental death and | ||
dismemberment benefits. | ||
(b) An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that | ||
violates this section is void and unenforceable. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 83, 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. |