Bill Text: TX HB33 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on certain companies and hospitals from requiring employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-10-12 - Referred to State Affairs [HB33 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB33-Introduced.html
| By: Slaton | H.B. No. 33 | |
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| relating to a prohibition on certain companies and hospitals from | ||
| requiring employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination; creating a | ||
| criminal offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 2, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Chapter 24 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 24. CERTAIN EMPLOYER-REQUIRED VACCINATIONS PROHIBITED | ||
| Sec. 24.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Company" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 808.001, Government Code. | ||
| (2) "COVID-19" means the 2019 novel coronavirus | ||
| disease. | ||
| (3) "Hospital" means a health facility that is | ||
| licensed under Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (4) "License" means a license, certificate, | ||
| registration, permit, or other authorization that: | ||
| (A) is issued by a state agency or political | ||
| subdivision; and | ||
| (B) a company must obtain to engage in a | ||
| particular business or occupation. | ||
| (5) "Political subdivision" means a county, | ||
| municipality, school district, special purpose district, or other | ||
| subdivision of state government that has jurisdiction limited to a | ||
| geographic portion of the state. | ||
| (6) "State agency" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 609.001, Government Code. | ||
| Sec. 24.002. OFFENSE; PENALTIES. (a) A company or hospital | ||
| commits an offense if the company or hospital requires, as a | ||
| condition of employment, an employee to receive a COVID-19 | ||
| vaccination. | ||
| (b) Each employee required to receive a vaccination is a | ||
| separate offense under Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor. | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding any other law, a company that is | ||
| convicted of an offense under this section is not eligible to hold a | ||
| license until the fifth anniversary of the date of the conviction. | ||
| A state agency or political subdivision shall revoke a license | ||
| issued to a company that is ineligible to hold the license under | ||
| this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
