Bill Text: TX HB4623 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 4623 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition against the creation of a fund and the use of state money by a state elected official or a state elected official's staff to settle or pay a sexual harassment claim made against a state elected official or the state elected official's staff.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Referred to State Affairs [HB4623 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4623-Introduced.html



	By: Meyer	H.B. No. 4623



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a prohibition against the creation of a fund and the use
	of state money by a state elected official or a state elected
	official's staff to settle or pay a sexual harassment claim made
	against a state elected official or the state elected official's
	staff.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 3, Government Code, is amended
	by adding Chapter 307 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 307. PROHIBITION ON FUND CREATION AND THE USE OF STATE MONEY
	BY AN ELECTED OFFICIAL OR ELECTED OFFICIAL'S STAFF TO SETTLE OR PAY
	SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS
	Sec. 307.001. PROHIBITION ON FUND CREATION AND THE USE OF
	STATE MONEY BY STATE ELECTED OFFICIAL OR STATE ELECTED OFFICIAL'S
	STAFF TO SETTLE OR PAY SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS. The legislature
	may not create a fund or permit the use of state money by a state
	elected official or the state elected official's staff to settle or
	otherwise pay a sexual harassment claim made against a state
	elected official or a member of the state elected official's staff.
	A state elected official or a state elected official's staff is
	personally liable for any claim due to their misconduct.

	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.