Bill Text: TX HB3263 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the protection of an employee of an open-enrollment charter school who reports a violation of law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3263 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3263-Introduced.html
By: Allen | H.B. No. 3263 |
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relating to the protection of an employee of an open-enrollment | ||
charter school who reports a violation of law. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 554.001, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 554.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "Law" means: | ||
(A) a state or federal statute; | ||
(B) an ordinance of a local governmental entity; | ||
or | ||
(C) a rule adopted under a statute or ordinance. | ||
(2) "Local governmental entity" means a political | ||
subdivision of the state, including [ |
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(A) a county; | ||
(B) a municipality; | ||
(C) a public school district; [ |
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(D) a special-purpose district or authority; or | ||
(E) an open-enrollment charter school. | ||
(3) "Personnel action" means an action that affects a | ||
public employee's compensation, promotion, demotion, transfer, | ||
work assignment, or performance evaluation. | ||
(4) "Public employee" means an employee or appointed | ||
officer other than an independent contractor who is paid to perform | ||
services for a state or local governmental entity. | ||
(5) "State governmental entity" means: | ||
(A) a board, commission, department, office, or | ||
other agency in the executive branch of state government, created | ||
under the constitution or a statute of the state, including an | ||
institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003, | ||
Education Code; | ||
(B) the legislature or a legislative agency; or | ||
(C) the Texas Supreme Court, the Texas Court of | ||
Criminal Appeals, a court of appeals, a state judicial agency, or | ||
the State Bar of Texas. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply to a | ||
suspension or termination of employment of a public employee or to | ||
other adverse personnel action taken against an employee on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. A suspension or termination | ||
of employment of a public employee or other adverse personnel | ||
action against the employee that is take before the effective date | ||
of this Act is governed by the law existing on the date the | ||
suspension, termination, or other adverse personnel action | ||
occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |