Bill Text: TX SB370 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to employment protections for jury service.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-25 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB370 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB370-Introduced.html
  86R6085 YDB-D
 
  By: Watson S.B. No. 370
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to employment protections for jury service.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 122.001, Civil Practice and Remedies
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 122.001.  PROTECTION OF JURORS' EMPLOYMENT; JUROR'S
  RIGHT TO REEMPLOYMENT; NOTICE OF INTENT TO RETURN. (a)  An [A
  private] employer may not discharge, threaten to discharge,
  intimidate, or coerce any [terminate the employment of a] permanent
  employee because the employee serves as a juror, or for the
  employee's attendance or scheduled attendance in connection with
  the service, in any court in the United States.
         (b)  An employee who is discharged, threatened with
  discharge, intimidated, or coerced [whose employment is
  terminated] in violation of this section is entitled to return to
  the same employment that the employee held when summoned for jury
  service if the employee, as soon as practical after release from
  jury service, gives the employer actual notice that the employee
  intends to return.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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