Bill Text: TX SB1693 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation, distribution, and posting of a veterans benefits and services poster in the workplace.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Vet Affairs [SB1693 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1693-Introduced.html
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| By: Blanco | S.B. No. 1693 | |
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| relating to the creation, distribution, and posting of a veterans | ||
| benefits and services poster in the workplace. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 4, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Chapter 319 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 319. POSTING OF INFORMATION ABOUT BENEFITS AND SERVICES FOR | ||
| VETERANS | ||
| Sec. 319.001. VETERANS BENEFITS AND SERVICES POSTER. (a) | ||
| In this section, "employer" means a person who employs at least 50 | ||
| employees. | ||
| (b) The commission shall, in consultation with the Texas | ||
| Veterans Commission, create and distribute to each employer in this | ||
| state a veterans benefits and services poster containing | ||
| information relating to: | ||
| (1) how an employee may: | ||
| (A) apply for unemployment compensation benefits | ||
| under Subtitle A and unemployment compensation benefits that may be | ||
| offered under a program administered by an agency of the federal | ||
| government; | ||
| (B) contact the Texas Veterans Commission, | ||
| including how an employee may access the Internet website | ||
| maintained by the Texas Veterans Commission and the veterans crisis | ||
| hotline established by the United States Department of Veterans | ||
| Affairs under 38 U.S.C. Section 1720F; | ||
| (C) exercise any tax benefits or preferences | ||
| offered to veterans under the Tax Code or Internal Revenue Code of | ||
| 1986; and | ||
| (D) obtain a driver's license or personal | ||
| identification card issued by the Department of Public Safety; and | ||
| (2) services that may be available to veterans in this | ||
| state, including: | ||
| (A) education, workforce placement, and training | ||
| programs; | ||
| (B) legal assistance; and | ||
| (C) substance abuse and mental health treatment. | ||
| (c) Each employer shall display the veterans benefits and | ||
| services poster distributed by the commission under this section in | ||
| a conspicuous place in the employer's place of business that is | ||
| accessible to all employees. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2023, the Texas | ||
| Workforce Commission shall, in consultation with the Texas Veterans | ||
| Commission, create and distribute the veterans benefits and | ||
| services poster as required by Section 319.001, Labor Code, as | ||
| added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
