Bill Text: TX HB577 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to adopt or enforce certain regulations regarding whether a private employer may obtain or consider an employment applicant's or employee's criminal history record information.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 76-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB577 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB577-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Workman, Shine, Dale, Isaac, Villalba, | H.B. No. 577 | ||
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| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 577: | |||
| By: Oliveira | C.S.H.B. No. 577 | ||
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| relating to the authority of a political subdivision to adopt or | ||
| enforce certain regulations regarding whether a private employer | ||
| may obtain or consider an employment applicant's or employee's | ||
| criminal history record information. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Title 3, Labor Code, is amended by adding Chapter | ||
| 106 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 106. CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION OF EMPLOYMENT | ||
| APPLICANT OR EMPLOYEE | ||
| Sec. 106.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Applicant" means a person who has made an oral or | ||
| written application with a private employer, or has sent a resume or | ||
| other correspondence to a private employer, indicating an interest | ||
| in employment. | ||
| (2) "Criminal history record information" means | ||
| information collected by a criminal justice agency about a person's | ||
| arrests, detentions, and criminal charges and the dispositions of | ||
| those criminal charges. | ||
| Sec. 106.002. CERTAIN LOCAL REGULATION OF PRIVATE EMPLOYERS | ||
| PROHIBITED. A political subdivision of this state may not adopt or | ||
| enforce any ordinance or other local regulation that prohibits, | ||
| limits, delays, or otherwise regulates a private employer's ability | ||
| to inquire about, request, consider, or take employment action | ||
| based on the criminal history record information of an applicant or | ||
| employee or criminal history provided by an applicant or employee. | ||
| Sec. 106.003. NONAPPLICABILITY. This chapter does not | ||
| prevent a political subdivision of this state from adopting or | ||
| enforcing an ordinance or other local regulation relating to the | ||
| access to or consideration of the criminal history record | ||
| information of an individual or criminal history provided by an | ||
| individual: | ||
| (1) entering into a contract or other agreement with | ||
| the political subdivision as it relates to hiring within the scope | ||
| of performance of duties under that contract or agreement; or | ||
| (2) receiving a grant from the political subdivision | ||
| as it relates to hiring within the scope of performance of duties | ||
| under that grant. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
