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| 7 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 8 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 9 | 6 | | relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of |
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| 10 | 7 | | employment leave provided by private employers. |
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| 11 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title 2, Labor Code, is amended by |
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| 13 | 10 | | adding Chapter 83 to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 11 | | CHAPTER 83. PROHIBITION AGAINST LOCAL REGULATION OF CERTAIN |
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| 15 | 12 | | EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES |
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| 16 | 13 | | Sec. 83.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: |
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| 17 | 14 | | (1) "Employee" means an individual who is employed by |
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| 18 | 15 | | an employer for compensation. |
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| 19 | 16 | | (2) "Employer" means a person who employs one or more |
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| 20 | 17 | | employees. |
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| 21 | 18 | | Sec. 83.002. LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT LEAVE |
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| 22 | 19 | | PROHIBITED. (a) A political subdivision of this state may not |
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| 23 | 20 | | adopt or enforce an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy |
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| 24 | 21 | | regulating a private employer's terms of employment relating to any |
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| 25 | 22 | | form of employment leave, including paid days off from work for |
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| 26 | 23 | | holidays, sick leave, vacation, and personal necessity. |
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| 27 | 24 | | (b) An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that |
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| 28 | 25 | | violates Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable. |
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| 29 | | - | Sec. 83.003. EFFECT OF CHAPTER. This chapter does not |
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| 30 | | - | affect: |
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| 31 | | - | (1) the Texas Minimum Wage Act under Chapter 62; or |
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| 32 | | - | (2) an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy |
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| 33 | | - | that prohibits employment discrimination, regardless of whether |
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| 34 | | - | the ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy is adopted |
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| 35 | | - | before, on, or after September 1, 2019. |
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| 36 | 26 | | SECTION 2. Chapter 83, Labor Code, as added by this Act, |
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| 37 | 27 | | applies to an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy adopted |
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| 38 | 28 | | before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. |
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| 39 | 29 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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