Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB56 Compare Versions

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1	1	86R1982 MAW-D
2	2	By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 56
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to employment discrimination training for members of the
8	8	legislature and state or legislative employees and interns.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 21.010, Labor Code, is amended to read as
11	11	follows:
12	12	Sec. 21.010. EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION TRAINING FOR STATE
13	13	EMPLOYEES AND UNPAID INTERNS. (a) Each state agency shall provide
14	14	to employees and unpaid interns of the agency an employment
15	15	discrimination training program that complies with this section.
16	16	(b) The training program must provide the employee or unpaid
17	17	intern with information regarding the agency's policies and
18	18	procedures relating to employment discrimination, including
19	19	employment discrimination involving sexual harassment.
20	20	(c) Each employee of a state agency shall attend the
21	21	training program required by this section not later than the 30th
22	22	day after the date the employee is hired by the agency and shall
23	23	attend supplemental training every two years. An unpaid intern
24	24	shall attend the training program required by this section not
25	25	later than the 30th day after the date the internship begins.
26	26	(d) [The commission shall develop materials for use by state
27	27	agencies in providing employment discrimination training as
28	28	required by this section.
29	29	[(e)] Each state agency shall require an employee or unpaid
30	30	intern of the agency who attends a training program required by this
31	31	section to sign a statement verifying the employee's or intern's
32	32	attendance at the training program. The agency shall file the
33	33	statement in the employee's or intern's personnel file.
34	34	(e) Section 21.1065(c) applies to a determination of
35	35	whether an individual is an unpaid intern for purposes of this
36	36	section.
37	37	SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Labor Code, is amended
38	38	by adding Sections 21.011 and 21.012 to read as follows:
39	39	Sec. 21.011. EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION TRAINING FOR
40	40	LEGISLATORS AND LEGISLATIVE EMPLOYEES AND UNPAID INTERNS. (a)
41	41	Each house of the legislature shall provide to members of that house
42	42	and to employees and unpaid interns of that house an employment
43	43	discrimination training program that complies with this section.
44	44	(b) The training program must provide the member, employee,
45	45	or unpaid intern with information regarding the policies and
46	46	procedures of the applicable house of the legislature that relate
47	47	to employment discrimination, including employment discrimination
48	48	involving sexual harassment.
49	49	(c) An individual elected to be a member of the legislature
50	50	shall attend the training program required by this section:
51	51	(1) not earlier than the day following the date of the
52	52	November general election that precedes the convening of each
53	53	regular session of the legislature for which the individual is
54	54	elected; and
55	55	(2) not later than February 1 of the year in which that
56	56	regular session is convened.
57	57	(d) Each employee of a house of the legislature shall attend
58	58	the training program required by this section not later than the
59	59	30th day after the date the employee is hired by the house and shall
60	60	attend supplemental training every two years. An unpaid intern
61	61	shall attend the training program required by this section not
62	62	later than the 30th day after the date the internship begins.
63	63	(e) The presiding officer of each house of the legislature
64	64	shall require each member of that house who attends a training
65	65	program required by this section to sign a statement verifying the
66	66	member's attendance at the training program. The presiding officer
67	67	shall maintain each statement.
68	68	(f) Each house of the legislature shall require an employee
69	69	or unpaid intern of that house who attends a training program
70	70	required by this section to sign a statement verifying the
71	71	employee's or intern's attendance at the training program. The
72	72	applicable house shall maintain each statement.
73	73	(g) Section 21.1065(c) applies to a determination of
74	74	whether an individual is an unpaid intern for purposes of this
75	75	section.
76	76	Sec. 21.012. EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION TRAINING MATERIALS.
77	77	The commission shall develop materials for use in providing the
78	78	employment discrimination training required by Sections 21.010 and
79	79	21.011.
80	80	SECTION 3. (a) Not later than October 1, 2019, the Texas
81	81	Workforce Commission shall develop the training materials required
82	82	by Section 21.012, Labor Code, as added by this Act.
83	83	(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section,
84	84	the changes in law made by this Act apply only to an individual who
85	85	becomes a member of the legislature, an employee of a house of the
86	86	legislature, or an unpaid intern of a state agency or a house of the
87	87	legislature after October 1, 2019.
88	88	(c) An individual who, on October 1, 2019, is a member of the
89	89	legislature, an employee of a house of the legislature, or an unpaid
90	90	intern of a state agency or a house of the legislature shall attend
91	91	the applicable training program required by Section 21.010, Labor
92	92	Code, as amended by this Act, or Section 21.011, Labor Code, as
93	93	added by this Act, not later than November 1, 2019.
94	94	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.