By: Longoria H.B. No. 1328 73R4856 PB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a prohibition of the application of the 1-3 employment-at-will doctrine to certain employees. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. In this Act: 1-6 (1) "Employee" means an individual who is employed by 1-7 an employer for compensation. 1-8 (2) "Employer" means a person that employs one or more 1-9 employees. 1-10 (3) "Person" means an individual, corporation, 1-11 association, partnership, organization, or other public or private 1-12 legal entity. 1-13 SECTION 2. (a) An employer may not discharge an employee 1-14 who has been continuously employed by that employer for at least 10 1-15 years, in any capacity, since the original date of hire except for 1-16 cause. 1-17 (b) An employer who violates this section is liable for any 1-18 loss of wages and employer-provided benefits incurred by the 1-19 employee as a result of the violation. A person discharged in 1-20 violation of this section is entitled to reinstatement in the same 1-21 or an equivalent position of employment with commensurate pay. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.