Bill Text: TX SB56 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to employment discrimination training for members of the legislature and state or legislative employees and interns.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-01 - Referred to State Affairs [SB56 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB56-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 56 | |
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| relating to employment discrimination training for members of the | ||
| legislature and state or legislative employees and interns. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 21.010, Labor Code, is amended to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.010. EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION TRAINING FOR STATE | ||
| EMPLOYEES AND UNPAID INTERNS. (a) Each state agency shall provide | ||
| to employees and unpaid interns of the agency an employment | ||
| discrimination training program that complies with this section. | ||
| (b) The training program must provide the employee or unpaid | ||
| intern with information regarding the agency's policies and | ||
| procedures relating to employment discrimination, including | ||
| employment discrimination involving sexual harassment. | ||
| (c) Each employee of a state agency shall attend the | ||
| training program required by this section not later than the 30th | ||
| day after the date the employee is hired by the agency and shall | ||
| attend supplemental training every two years. An unpaid intern | ||
| shall attend the training program required by this section not | ||
| later than the 30th day after the date the internship begins. | ||
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| intern of the agency who attends a training program required by this | ||
| section to sign a statement verifying the employee's or intern's | ||
| attendance at the training program. The agency shall file the | ||
| statement in the employee's or intern's personnel file. | ||
| (e) Section 21.1065(c) applies to a determination of | ||
| whether an individual is an unpaid intern for purposes of this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Labor Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Sections 21.011 and 21.012 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.011. EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION TRAINING FOR | ||
| LEGISLATORS AND LEGISLATIVE EMPLOYEES AND UNPAID INTERNS. (a) | ||
| Each house of the legislature shall provide to members of that house | ||
| and to employees and unpaid interns of that house an employment | ||
| discrimination training program that complies with this section. | ||
| (b) The training program must provide the member, employee, | ||
| or unpaid intern with information regarding the policies and | ||
| procedures of the applicable house of the legislature that relate | ||
| to employment discrimination, including employment discrimination | ||
| involving sexual harassment. | ||
| (c) An individual elected to be a member of the legislature | ||
| shall attend the training program required by this section: | ||
| (1) not earlier than the day following the date of the | ||
| November general election that precedes the convening of each | ||
| regular session of the legislature for which the individual is | ||
| elected; and | ||
| (2) not later than February 1 of the year in which that | ||
| regular session is convened. | ||
| (d) Each employee of a house of the legislature shall attend | ||
| the training program required by this section not later than the | ||
| 30th day after the date the employee is hired by the house and shall | ||
| attend supplemental training every two years. An unpaid intern | ||
| shall attend the training program required by this section not | ||
| later than the 30th day after the date the internship begins. | ||
| (e) The presiding officer of each house of the legislature | ||
| shall require each member of that house who attends a training | ||
| program required by this section to sign a statement verifying the | ||
| member's attendance at the training program. The presiding officer | ||
| shall maintain each statement. | ||
| (f) Each house of the legislature shall require an employee | ||
| or unpaid intern of that house who attends a training program | ||
| required by this section to sign a statement verifying the | ||
| employee's or intern's attendance at the training program. The | ||
| applicable house shall maintain each statement. | ||
| (g) Section 21.1065(c) applies to a determination of | ||
| whether an individual is an unpaid intern for purposes of this | ||
| section. | ||
| Sec. 21.012. EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION TRAINING MATERIALS. | ||
| The commission shall develop materials for use in providing the | ||
| employment discrimination training required by Sections 21.010 and | ||
| 21.011. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) Not later than October 1, 2019, the Texas | ||
| Workforce Commission shall develop the training materials required | ||
| by Section 21.012, Labor Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, | ||
| the changes in law made by this Act apply only to an individual who | ||
| becomes a member of the legislature, an employee of a house of the | ||
| legislature, or an unpaid intern of a state agency or a house of the | ||
| legislature after October 1, 2019. | ||
| (c) An individual who, on October 1, 2019, is a member of the | ||
| legislature, an employee of a house of the legislature, or an unpaid | ||
| intern of a state agency or a house of the legislature shall attend | ||
| the applicable training program required by Section 21.010, Labor | ||
| Code, as amended by this Act, or Section 21.011, Labor Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, not later than November 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
