By: Alvarado, Zaffirini S.B. No. 282
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition against the appropriation of money to
settle or pay a sexual harassment claim made against certain
members of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state
government.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 5, Government Code, is amended
by adding Chapter 576 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 576. PROHIBITION ON APPROPRIATION OF MONEY TO SETTLE OR PAY
SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS
Sec. 576.0001. PROHIBITION ON APPROPRIATION OF MONEY TO
SETTLE OR PAY SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS. The legislature may not
appropriate money and a state agency may not use appropriated money
to settle or otherwise pay a sexual harassment claim made against an
elected member of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of
state government or a person appointed by the governor to serve as a
member of a department, commission, board, or other public office
within the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state
government.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.