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| 1 | - | By: Meyer, Middleton, Sanford, Noble, Neave, H.B. No. 4623 | |
| 2 | - | et al. | |
| 1 | + | By: Meyer H.B. No. 4623 | |
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| 5 | 4 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 5 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 6 | relating to a prohibition against the creation of a fund and the use | |
| 8 | 7 | of state money by a state elected official or a state elected | |
| 9 | 8 | official's staff to settle or pay a sexual harassment claim made | |
| 10 | 9 | against a state elected official or the state elected official's | |
| 11 | 10 | staff. | |
| 12 | 11 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 13 | 12 | SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 3, Government Code, is amended | |
| 14 | 13 | by adding Chapter 307 to read as follows: | |
| 15 | - | CHAPTER 307. PROHIBITION ON FUND CREATION AND USE OF STATE MONEY | |
| 16 | - | ELECTED OFFICIAL OR ELECTED OFFICIAL'S STAFF TO SETTLE OR PAY | |
| 14 | + | CHAPTER 307. PROHIBITION ON FUND CREATION AND THE USE OF STATE MONEY | |
| 15 | + | BY AN ELECTED OFFICIAL OR ELECTED OFFICIAL'S STAFF TO SETTLE OR PAY | |
| 17 | 16 | SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS | |
| 18 | - | Sec. 307.001. PROHIBITION ON FUND CREATION AND USE OF | |
| 19 | - | MONEY BY STATE ELECTED OFFICIAL OR STATE ELECTED OFFICIAL'S | |
| 20 | - | TO SETTLE OR PAY SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS. The legislature | |
| 21 | - | create a fund or permit the use of state money by a state | |
| 22 | - | official or the state elected official's staff to settle or | |
| 17 | + | Sec. 307.001. PROHIBITION ON FUND CREATION AND THE USE OF | |
| 18 | + | STATE MONEY BY STATE ELECTED OFFICIAL OR STATE ELECTED OFFICIAL'S | |
| 19 | + | STAFF TO SETTLE OR PAY SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS. The legislature | |
| 20 | + | may not create a fund or permit the use of state money by a state | |
| 21 | + | elected official or the state elected official's staff to settle or | |
| 23 | 22 | otherwise pay a sexual harassment claim made against a state | |
| 24 | 23 | elected official or a member of the state elected official's staff. | |
| 25 | 24 | A state elected official or a state elected official's staff is | |
| 26 | 25 | personally liable for any claim due to their misconduct. | |
| 27 | 26 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |