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