Bill Text: TX SB2485 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of certain employment benefits provided by private employers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB2485 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2485-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Creighton, et al. | S.B. No. 2485 | |
| (Phelan) | ||
| Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2485: No. | ||
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| relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of | ||
| certain employment benefits provided by private employers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title 2, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Chapter 84 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 84. PROHIBITION AGAINST LOCAL REGULATION OF CERTAIN | ||
| EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES | ||
| Sec. 84.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Employee" means an individual who is employed by | ||
| an employer for compensation. | ||
| (2) "Employer" means a person who employs one or more | ||
| employees. | ||
| (3) "Employment benefit" means anything of value that | ||
| an employee receives from an employer in addition to monetary | ||
| compensation. | ||
| Sec. 84.002. LOCAL REGULATION OF CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT | ||
| BENEFITS PROHIBITED. (a) A political subdivision of this state | ||
| may not adopt or enforce an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or | ||
| policy mandating a private employer's terms of employment relating | ||
| to employment benefits, including health, disability, retirement, | ||
| profit-sharing, death, and group accidental death and | ||
| dismemberment benefits. | ||
| (b) An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that | ||
| violates Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable. | ||
| Sec. 84.003. EFFECT OF CHAPTER. This chapter does not | ||
| affect: | ||
| (1) the Texas Minimum Wage Act under Chapter 62; or | ||
| (2) an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy | ||
| that prohibits employment discrimination, regardless of whether | ||
| the ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy is adopted | ||
| before, on, or after September 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 84, Labor Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| applies to an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy adopted | ||
| before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
