Bill Text: TX HB1131 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a database of employers penalized for failure to pay wages or convicted of certain offenses involving wage theft.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1131 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1131-Introduced.html

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83R6175 MAW-D
By: M. Gonzalez of El Paso H.B. No. 1131

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a database of employers convicted of certain offenses
involving wage theft.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 301, Labor Code, is
amended by adding Section 301.070 to read as follows:
Sec. 301.070. DATABASE REGARDING WAGE THEFT. (a) In this
section, "employee" and "employer" have the meanings assigned by
Section 61.001.
(b) The commission shall make available on its Internet
website a publicly accessible list of all employers in this state
that have been convicted of an offense under:
(1) Section 61.019; or
(2) Section 31.04, Penal Code, if the offense involved
the theft of a service that was rendered by an employee of the
employer.
(c) For an employer that is a business entity, the database
must include the name under which the entity operates and the name
of each individual who is an owner of the entity.
(d) The commission shall list an employer in the database
until the third anniversary of the date of the conviction described
by Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2013, the Texas
Workforce Commission shall establish the database required by
Section 301.070, Labor Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.