Bill Text: TX HB1654 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation by a municipality or county of certain employment benefits and policies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-04 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1654 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1654-Introduced.html
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| By: Goldman | H.B. No. 1654 | |
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| relating to the regulation by a municipality or county of certain | ||
| employment benefits and policies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. 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 AND POLICIES | ||
| 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 beyond regular salary or | ||
| wages. | ||
| Sec. 83.002. PROHIBITION AGAINST MUNICIPALITY OR COUNTY | ||
| REQUIRING CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS OR POLICIES. (a) A | ||
| municipality or county may not adopt or enforce an ordinance, | ||
| order, rule, regulation, or policy requiring any terms of | ||
| employment that exceed or conflict with federal or state law | ||
| relating to any form of employment leave, hiring practices, | ||
| employment benefits, scheduling practices, or other terms of | ||
| employment. | ||
| (b) An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that | ||
| violates Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable. | ||
| (c) This chapter does not affect: | ||
| (1) the Texas Minimum Wage Act under Chapter 62; | ||
| (2) an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy | ||
| that prohibits employment discrimination, regardless of whether | ||
| the ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy is adopted | ||
| before, on, or after September 1, 2019; or | ||
| (3) a contract or agreement relating to terms of | ||
| employment voluntarily entered into between a private employer or | ||
| entity and a governmental entity. | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 83, Labor Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| applies to an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy adopted | ||
| before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
