86R873 KKR-D
 
  By: Krause H.B. No. 222
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to prohibiting a municipality from requiring an employer
  to provide paid sick leave.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle D, Title 2, Labor Code, is amended by
  adding Chapter 83 to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 83.  MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT LEAVE
         Sec. 83.001.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
               (1)  "Employee" means an individual who is employed by
  an employer for compensation.
               (2)  "Employer" means a person who employs one or more
  employees.
         Sec. 83.002.  MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF SICK LEAVE PROHIBITED.
  (a)  The governing body of a municipality may not adopt or enforce
  any ordinance, rule, or regulation that requires an employer to
  provide to an employee paid sick leave.
         (b)  An ordinance, rule, or regulation that violates
  Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable.
         SECTION 2.  Chapter 83, Labor Code, as added by this Act,
  applies to an ordinance, rule, or regulation adopted before, on, or
  after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.