By: Creighton S.B. No. 2485
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the regulation by a political subdivision of certain
employment benefits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title 2, Labor Code, is amended by
adding Chapter 83 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 83. LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
Sec. 83.001. 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. 83.002. PROHIBITED LOCAL REGULATIONS. (a) A
political subdivision of this state may not adopt or enforce any
ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy regulating a private
employer's terms of employment relating to employment benefits
other than employment leave, including health, disability,
retirement, profit-sharing, death, and group accidental death and
dismemberment benefits.
(b) An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that
violates this section is void and unenforceable.
SECTION 2. Chapter 83, 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.