Bill Text: TX HB1822 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of "employer" for purposes of a sexual harassment claim.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-23 - Left pending in committee [HB1822 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1822-Introduced.html
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By: Neave | H.B. No. 1822 |
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relating to the definition of "employer" for purposes of a sexual | ||
harassment claim. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.002(8), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(8) "Employer" means, except as provided by Section | ||
21.0023: | ||
(A) a person who is engaged in an industry | ||
affecting commerce and who has 15 or more employees for each working | ||
day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding | ||
calendar year; | ||
(B) an agent of a person described by Paragraph | ||
(A); | ||
(C) an individual elected to public office in | ||
this state or a political subdivision of this state; or | ||
(D) a county, municipality, state agency, or | ||
state instrumentality, regardless of the number of individuals | ||
employed. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Labor Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 21.0023 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.0023. DEFINITION OF EMPLOYER FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT | ||
CLAIM. For purposes of a claim under this chapter based on sexual | ||
harassment, the term "employer" means: | ||
(1) a person who is engaged in an industry affecting | ||
commerce and who has one or more employees for each working day in | ||
each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding | ||
calendar year; | ||
(2) an agent of a person described by Subdivision (1); | ||
(3) an individual elected to public office in this | ||
state or a political subdivision of this state; or | ||
(4) a county, municipality, state agency, or state | ||
instrumentality, regardless of the number of individuals employed. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a claim of sexual harassment based on conduct that occurs on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. A claim of sexual harassment | ||
that is based on conduct that occurs before the effective date of | ||
this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct | ||
occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |