Bill Text: TX SB68 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to wages and employment benefits.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-10 - Filed [SB68 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB68-Introduced.html
| 87S20533 JSC-D | ||
| By: Campbell | S.B. No. 68 | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to wages and employment benefits. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the Texas Small | ||
| Business Protection Act. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 62.002, Labor Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subdivision (8) to read as follows: | ||
| (8) "Wages" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 61.001. | ||
| SECTION 3. Subtitle D, Title 2, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Chapter 83 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 83. PROHIBITION AGAINST LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT | ||
| BENEFITS | ||
| 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, including: | ||
| (A) health, disability, retirement, | ||
| profit-sharing, and death benefits; | ||
| (B) group accidental death and dismemberment | ||
| benefits; and | ||
| (C) paid days off from work for holidays, sick | ||
| leave, vacation, and personal necessity. | ||
| Sec. 83.002. PROHIBITION AGAINST MUNICIPALITY OR COUNTY | ||
| REQUIRING EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. A municipality or county may not | ||
| adopt or enforce an ordinance, order, rule, or regulation that | ||
| requires an employer in the municipality or county to provide | ||
| employment benefits. | ||
| SECTION 4. Chapter 83, Labor Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| applies to an ordinance, order, rule, or regulation adopted before, | ||
| on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
