Bill Text: TX SB766 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to sexually oriented businesses, including a requirement to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify, and restricting the age of persons employed by or allowed on the premises; creating criminal offenses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB766 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB766-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to sexually oriented businesses, including a requirement to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify, and restricting the age of persons employed by or allowed on the premises; creating criminal offenses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB766 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB766-Comm_Sub.html
By: Huffman | S.B. No. 766 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 23, 2021; March 11, 2021, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; | ||
April 9, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, | ||
Nays 0; April 9, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to requiring sexually oriented businesses to participate | ||
in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization | ||
program, or E-verify; creating a criminal offense. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.016, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a), (c), (d), (e), and (h) and adding | ||
Subsection (j) to read as follows: | ||
(a) In this section: | ||
(1) "E-verify program" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 673.001, Government Code. | ||
(2) "Sexually[ |
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meaning assigned by Section 243.002, Local Government Code. | ||
(c) A sexually oriented business shall: | ||
(1) maintain at the business a record that contains a | ||
copy of a valid proof of identification of each employee and [ |
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independent contractor working at the premises of the business; and | ||
(2) register and participate in the E-verify program | ||
to verify information of all employees and independent contractors. | ||
(d) A proof of identification satisfies the requirements of | ||
Subsection (c)(1) [ |
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(1) contains a physical description and photograph | ||
consistent with the person's appearance; | ||
(2) contains the date of birth of the person; and | ||
(3) was issued by a government agency. | ||
(e) The form of identification under Subsection (c)(1) | ||
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(1) a driver's license issued by this state or another | ||
state; | ||
(2) a passport; or | ||
(3) an identification card issued by this or another | ||
state or the federal government. | ||
(h) The commission, the attorney general, or a [ |
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enforcement agency may inspect a record maintained under this | ||
section and request proof of E-verify program information | ||
verification if there is good reason to believe that an individual | ||
younger than 18 years of age is employed or has been employed by the | ||
sexually oriented business within the five [ |
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the date of the inspection. | ||
(j) A person commits an offense if the person fails to | ||
register and participate in the E-verify program as required by | ||
Subsection (c)(2). | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an employee of a sexually oriented business who commences | ||
employment with the business on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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