86R33834 JSC-D
By: Creighton, et al. S.B. No. 2487
(Phelan)
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2487: No.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of
employment leave provided by private employers.
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. PROHIBITION AGAINST LOCAL REGULATION OF CERTAIN
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.
Sec. 83.002. LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT LEAVE
PROHIBITED. (a) A political subdivision of this state may not
adopt or enforce an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy
regulating a private employer's terms of employment relating to any
form of employment leave, including paid days off from work for
holidays, sick leave, vacation, and personal necessity.
(b) An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that
violates Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable.
Sec. 83.003. EFFECT OF CHAPTER. This chapter does not
affect:
(1) the Texas Minimum Wage Act under Chapter 62; or
(2) an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy
that prohibits employment discrimination, regardless of whether
the ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy is adopted
before, on, or after September 1, 2019.
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.