Bill Text: TX HB915 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that employers post notice of certain information regarding reporting instances of workplace violence or suspicious activity.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB915 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB915-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 915 | ||
|
|
||
| relating to a requirement that employers post notice of certain | ||
| information regarding reporting instances of workplace violence or | ||
| suspicious activity. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Title 3, Labor Code, is amended by adding Chapter | ||
| 104A to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 104A. REPORTING WORKPLACE VIOLENCE | ||
| Sec. 104A.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Commission" means the Texas Workforce | ||
| Commission. | ||
| (2) "Employee" means an individual who is employed by | ||
| an employer for compensation. | ||
| (3) "Employer" means a person who employs one or more | ||
| employees. | ||
| Sec. 104A.002. NOTICE BY EMPLOYER. Each employer shall | ||
| post a notice to employees of the contact information for reporting | ||
| instances of workplace violence or suspicious activity to the | ||
| Department of Public Safety. The notice must be posted: | ||
| (1) in a conspicuous place in the employer's place of | ||
| business; | ||
| (2) in sufficient locations to be convenient to all | ||
| employees; and | ||
| (3) in English and Spanish, as appropriate. | ||
| Sec. 104A.003. RULES. The commission, in consultation with | ||
| the Department of Public Safety, by rule shall prescribe the form | ||
| and content of the notice required by this section. The rules must | ||
| require that the notice: | ||
| (1) contain the contact information for reporting | ||
| instances of workplace violence or suspicious activity to the | ||
| Department of Public Safety; and | ||
| (2) inform employees of the right to make a report to | ||
| the Department of Public Safety anonymously. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2024, the Texas Workforce | ||
| Commission shall adopt rules as required by Section 104A.003, Labor | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 915 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 128, Nays 20, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 915 on May 26, 2023, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 915 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 121, | ||
| Nays 18, 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 915 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays | ||
| 3; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 915 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
