By: Creighton S.B. No. 2486
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the regulation by a political subdivision of terms of
  employment relating to scheduling practices.
         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.  LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
         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.  PROHIBITED LOCAL REGULATIONS.  (a)  A
  political subdivision of this state may not adopt or enforce any
  ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy regulating a private
  employer's terms of employment relating to scheduling practices.
         (b)  An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that
  violates this section is void and unenforceable.
         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.