Bill Text: TX SB2487 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of employment leave provided by private employers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB2487 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2487-Comm_Sub.html
86R33834 JSC-D | ||
By: Creighton, et al. | S.B. No. 2487 | |
(Phelan) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2487: No. |
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relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of | ||
employment leave provided by private employers. | ||
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. PROHIBITION AGAINST LOCAL REGULATION OF CERTAIN | ||
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. | ||
Sec. 83.002. LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT LEAVE | ||
PROHIBITED. (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 any | ||
form of employment leave, including paid days off from work for | ||
holidays, sick leave, vacation, and personal necessity. | ||
(b) An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that | ||
violates Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable. | ||
Sec. 83.003. EFFECT OF CHAPTER. This chapter does not | ||
affect: | ||
(1) the Texas Minimum Wage Act under Chapter 62; or | ||
(2) an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy | ||
that prohibits employment discrimination, regardless of whether | ||
the ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy is adopted | ||
before, on, or after September 1, 2019. | ||
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. |