Bill Text: TX SB2152 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to wage claim data.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB2152 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2152-Comm_Sub.html
86R33590 KSD-F | ||
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 2152 | |
(Anchia) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2152: No. |
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relating to wage claim data. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 301, Labor Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 301.0851 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 301.0851. WAGE CLAIM DATA. (a) In this section, | ||
"wage claim data" means information collected, received, | ||
developed, or maintained in the records of the commission that | ||
relates to the administration of Chapter 61. The term does not | ||
include: | ||
(1) aggregated data that does not tend to identify an | ||
individual; or | ||
(2) information regarding a violation or the | ||
enforcement of Chapter 61. | ||
(b) The commission shall adopt and enforce reasonable rules | ||
governing the confidentiality, custody, use, preservation, and | ||
disclosure of wage claim data. The rules must: | ||
(1) include safeguards to protect the confidentiality | ||
of identifying information regarding any individual or any past or | ||
present employer or employing unit contained in the wage claim | ||
data, including any information that foreseeably could be combined | ||
with other publicly available information to reveal identifying | ||
information regarding the individual, employer, or employing unit, | ||
as applicable; and | ||
(2) allow for the sharing of wage claim data with other | ||
state agencies that agree to the confidentiality standards adopted | ||
by the commission for that data. | ||
(c) Wage claim data is not public information for purposes | ||
of Chapter 552, Government Code. | ||
(d) The commission may adopt rules governing the disclosure | ||
of: | ||
(1) aggregated data that does not tend to identify an | ||
individual; or | ||
(2) information regarding a violation or the | ||
enforcement of Chapter 61. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |