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| 1 | 1 | 86R6085 YDB-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Smithee H.B. No. 3449 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to employment protections for jury service. | |
| 8 | 8 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 9 | 9 | SECTION 1. Section 122.001, Civil Practice and Remedies | |
| 10 | 10 | Code, is amended to read as follows: | |
| 11 | 11 | Sec. 122.001. PROTECTION OF JURORS' EMPLOYMENT; JUROR'S | |
| 12 | 12 | RIGHT TO REEMPLOYMENT; NOTICE OF INTENT TO RETURN. (a) An [A | |
| 13 | 13 | private] employer may not discharge, threaten to discharge, | |
| 14 | 14 | intimidate, or coerce any [terminate the employment of a] permanent | |
| 15 | 15 | employee because the employee serves as a juror, or for the | |
| 16 | 16 | employee's attendance or scheduled attendance in connection with | |
| 17 | 17 | the service, in any court in the United States. | |
| 18 | 18 | (b) An employee who is discharged, threatened with | |
| 19 | 19 | discharge, intimidated, or coerced [whose employment is | |
| 20 | 20 | terminated] in violation of this section is entitled to return to | |
| 21 | 21 | the same employment that the employee held when summoned for jury | |
| 22 | 22 | service if the employee, as soon as practical after release from | |
| 23 | 23 | jury service, gives the employer actual notice that the employee | |
| 24 | 24 | intends to return. | |
| 25 | 25 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |