Bill Text: TX HB21 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the statute of limitations applicable to a sexual harassment complaint filed with the Texas Workforce Commission.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-3)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB21 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB21-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 21 | ||
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| relating to the statute of limitations applicable to a sexual | ||
| harassment complaint filed with the Texas Workforce Commission. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 21.201(g), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (g) If a perfected complaint is not received by the | ||
| commission within 180 days of the alleged unlawful employment | ||
| practice or, for a complaint alleging sexual harassment, within 300 | ||
| days of the alleged sexual harassment, the commission shall notify | ||
| the respondent that a complaint has been filed and that the process | ||
| of perfecting the complaint is in progress. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 21.202, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), a [ |
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| under this subchapter must be filed not later than the 180th day | ||
| after the date the alleged unlawful employment practice occurred. | ||
| (a-1) A complaint under this subchapter alleging sexual | ||
| harassment must be filed not later than the 300th day after the date | ||
| the alleged sexual harassment occurred. | ||
| SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a sexual harassment complaint based on conduct occurring on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. A sexual harassment complaint | ||
| that is based on conduct occurring before that date is governed by | ||
| the law in effect on the date the conduct occurred, and the former | ||
| law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 21 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 30, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 21 was passed by the Senate on May 22, | ||
| 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
