| 1 | 1 | | 86R6974 KSD-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Turner of Tarrant H.B. No. 4563 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to a requirement that certain employers maintain records |
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| 8 | 8 | | of complaints alleging sexual harassment. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 21, Labor Code, is amended |
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| 11 | 11 | | by adding Section 21.3015 to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | Sec. 21.3015. INTERNAL RECORD OF EMPLOYEE COMPLAINT |
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| 13 | 13 | | ALLEGING SEXUAL HARASSMENT. (a) An employer who has 50 or more |
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| 14 | 14 | | employees shall maintain an internal record of each employee |
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| 15 | 15 | | complaint made to the employer that includes an allegation of |
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| 16 | 16 | | sexual harassment. The record must be maintained for at least five |
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| 17 | 17 | | years after the last date of employment with the employer of the |
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| 18 | 18 | | employee who made the complaint or of any person alleged in the |
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| 19 | 19 | | complaint to have committed sexual harassment, whichever date is |
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| 20 | 20 | | latest. |
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| 21 | 21 | | (b) The commission may adopt rules relating to the |
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| 22 | 22 | | information that must be maintained in an employer record under |
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| 23 | 23 | | this section. |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 2. Section 21.3015, Labor Code, as added by this |
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| 25 | 25 | | Act, applies only to an employee complaint made on or after the |
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| 26 | 26 | | effective date of this Act. An employee complaint made before the |
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| 27 | 27 | | effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the |
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| 28 | 28 | | date the complaint was made, and the former law is continued in |
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| 29 | 29 | | effect for that purpose. |
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| 30 | 30 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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