Bill Text: TX SB1577 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1577 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1577-Comm_Sub.html
By: Alvarado, et al. | S.B. No. 1577 | |
(Minjarez) | ||
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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, 2019. |