By: Toth H.B. No. 169
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition on certain governmental contracts with
companies that require employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle F, Title 10, Government Code, is
amended by adding Chapter 2275 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 2275. MANDATORY COVID-19 VACCINATIONS PROHIBITED
Sec. 2275.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Company" has the meaning assigned by Section
808.001.
(2) "Political subdivision" means a county,
municipality, school district, special purpose district, or other
subdivision of state government that has jurisdiction limited to a
geographic portion of the state.
(3) "State agency" has the meaning assigned by Section
609.001.
Sec. 2275.002. PROVISION REQUIRED IN CONTRACT. A state
agency or political subdivision may not enter into a contract with a
company for goods or services unless the contract contains a
written verification from the company that it does not, and will not
during the term of the contract, require, as a condition of
employment, an employee to receive any COVID-19 vaccination.
SECTION 2. Chapter 2275, Government Code, as added by this
Act, applies only to a contract entered into on or after the
effective date of this Act. A contract entered into before that
date is governed by the law in effect on the date the contract was
entered into, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
last day of the legislative session.