By: Alvarado  S.B. No. 282
         (In the Senate - Filed January 4, 2021; March 3, 2021, read
  first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
  April 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; April 20, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  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, 2021.
 
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