Bill Text: TX HB512 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of state agency grievance procedures for state agency employees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB512 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB512-Introduced.html
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| By: Cortez | H.B. No. 512 | |
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| relating to the establishment of state agency grievance procedures | ||
| for state agency employees. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 6, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 674 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 674. EMPLOYEE GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES | ||
| Sec. 674.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Agency employee" means an individual, other than | ||
| a state officer, who is employed by a state agency. | ||
| (2) "State agency" means: | ||
| (A) a department, commission, board, office, or | ||
| other agency in the executive branch of state government that was | ||
| created by the Texas Constitution or a statute of this state, | ||
| including a university system or an institution of higher education | ||
| as those terms are defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, other | ||
| than a public junior college as defined by Section 61.003, | ||
| Education Code; | ||
| (B) the legislature or a legislative agency; or | ||
| (C) the supreme court, the court of criminal | ||
| appeals, a court of appeals, the state bar, or another state | ||
| judicial agency. | ||
| Sec. 674.002. AGENCY EMPLOYEE GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE. (a) | ||
| The executive head of each state agency by rule shall establish a | ||
| grievance procedure for agency employees. The procedure must allow | ||
| an agency employee to appeal an employment action taken by the | ||
| agency regarding: | ||
| (1) a disciplinary action imposed on the employee, | ||
| including: | ||
| (A) an oral or written reprimand; | ||
| (B) a demotion; | ||
| (C) a suspension; | ||
| (D) a reduction in compensation; and | ||
| (E) a termination for cause and at will; or | ||
| (2) the employee's compensation or working conditions, | ||
| including the hours the employee is required to work. | ||
| (b) An appeal made under this section is considered to be a | ||
| contested case under Chapter 2001. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2026, the executive | ||
| head of each state agency shall adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| Chapter 674, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
