87R427 KSD-D
By: Guillen H.B. No. 3763
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition on certain employer requirements relating
to employee jury duty compensation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Labor Code, is amended
by adding Section 61.0185 to read as follows:
Sec. 61.0185. PROHIBITED EMPLOYER REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO
JURY DUTY COMPENSATION. An employer who pays wages, including on a
salary basis, to an employee for any period during which the
employee is absent from work due to reporting for jury service and
discharging that duty may not:
(1) require the employee to remit to the employer any
reimbursement for travel or other expenses, or any other
compensation, received by the employee for that service; or
(2) withhold or divert any part of the employee's wages
to offset the amount of any reimbursement or other compensation
described by Subdivision (1).
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
with respect to reimbursement or compensation for jury service that
commences on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.