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| 1 | 1 | 87R427 KSD-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Guillen H.B. No. 3763 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to a prohibition on certain employer requirements relating | |
| 8 | 8 | to employee jury duty compensation. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Labor Code, is amended | |
| 11 | 11 | by adding Section 61.0185 to read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | Sec. 61.0185. PROHIBITED EMPLOYER REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO | |
| 13 | 13 | JURY DUTY COMPENSATION. An employer who pays wages, including on a | |
| 14 | 14 | salary basis, to an employee for any period during which the | |
| 15 | 15 | employee is absent from work due to reporting for jury service and | |
| 16 | 16 | discharging that duty may not: | |
| 17 | 17 | (1) require the employee to remit to the employer any | |
| 18 | 18 | reimbursement for travel or other expenses, or any other | |
| 19 | 19 | compensation, received by the employee for that service; or | |
| 20 | 20 | (2) withhold or divert any part of the employee's wages | |
| 21 | 21 | to offset the amount of any reimbursement or other compensation | |
| 22 | 22 | described by Subdivision (1). | |
| 23 | 23 | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | |
| 24 | 24 | with respect to reimbursement or compensation for jury service that | |
| 25 | 25 | commences on or after the effective date of this Act. | |
| 26 | 26 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |