S.B. No. 370
AN ACT
relating to employment protections for jury service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 122.001, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 122.001. PROTECTION OF JURORS' EMPLOYMENT; JUROR'S
RIGHT TO REEMPLOYMENT; NOTICE OF INTENT TO RETURN. (a) An [A
private] employer may not discharge, threaten to discharge,
intimidate, or coerce any [terminate the employment of a] permanent
employee because the employee serves as a juror, or for the
employee's attendance or scheduled attendance in connection with
the service, in any court in the United States.
(b) An employee who is discharged, threatened with
discharge, intimidated, or coerced [whose employment is
terminated] in violation of this section is entitled to return to
the same employment that the employee held when summoned for jury
service if the employee, as soon as practical after release from
jury service, gives the employer actual notice that the employee
intends to return.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 370 passed the Senate on
April 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 370 passed the House on
May 14, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, two
present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor