Bill Text: TX HB3499 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the right to reemployment of a person who serves as an election judge or clerk.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-20 - Referred to Elections [HB3499 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3499-Introduced.html
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| By: Perez | H.B. No. 3499 | |
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| relating to the right to reemployment of a person who serves as an | ||
| election judge or clerk. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 32, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter G to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER G. RIGHT TO REEMPLOYMENT | ||
| Sec. 32.131. ELECTION JUDGE OR CLERK'S RIGHT TO | ||
| REEMPLOYMENT; NOTICE OF INTENT TO RETURN. (a) A private employer | ||
| may not terminate the employment of a permanent employee because | ||
| the employee serves as an election judge or clerk on election day. | ||
| (b) An employee whose employment is terminated in violation | ||
| of this section is entitled to return to the same employment that | ||
| the employee held when appointed as an election judge or clerk if | ||
| the employee, as soon as practicable after the employee's release | ||
| from service as an election judge or clerk, gives the employer | ||
| actual notice that the employee intends to return. | ||
| Sec. 32.132. DAMAGES; REINSTATEMENT; ATTORNEY'S FEES. (a) | ||
| A person who is injured because of a violation of this subchapter is | ||
| entitled to reinstatement to the person's former position and to | ||
| damages in an amount not less than an amount equal to one year's | ||
| compensation nor more than an amount equal to five years' | ||
| compensation at the rate at which the person was compensated when | ||
| appointed as an election judge or clerk. | ||
| (b) The injured person is also entitled to reasonable | ||
| attorney's fees in an amount approved by the court. | ||
| (c) An action for damages brought by a person under | ||
| Subsection (a) must be brought not later than the second | ||
| anniversary of the date on which the person served as an election | ||
| judge or clerk. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
