86R9497 JSC-F
 
  By: Creighton, Buckingham, Campbell S.B. No. 15
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the regulation by a municipality or county of certain
  employment benefits and policies.
         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. PROHIBITION AGAINST LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT
  BENEFITS AND POLICIES
         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.
               (3)  "Employment benefit" means anything of value that
  an employee receives from an employer beyond regular salary or
  wages.
         Sec. 83.002.  PROHIBITION AGAINST MUNICIPALITY OR COUNTY
  REQUIRING CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS OR POLICIES. (a)  A
  municipality or county may not adopt or enforce an ordinance,
  order, rule, regulation, or policy requiring any terms of
  employment that exceed or conflict with federal or state law
  relating to any form of employment leave, hiring practices,
  employment benefits, scheduling practices, or other terms of
  employment.
         (b)  An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that
  violates Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable.
         (c)  This chapter does not affect:
               (1)  the Texas Minimum Wage Act under Chapter 62;
               (2)  an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy
  that prohibits employment discrimination, regardless of whether
  the ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy is adopted
  before, on, or after September 1, 2019; or
               (3)  a contract or agreement relating to terms of
  employment voluntarily entered into between a private employer or
  entity and a governmental entity.
         SECTION 2.  Chapter 83, Labor Code, as added by this Act,
  applies to an ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy adopted
  before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.