By: Creighton  S.B. No. 2486
         (In the Senate - Filed March 27, 2019; March 27, 2019, read
  first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
  April 8, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 8, 2019,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2486 By:  Creighton
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of the
  scheduling practices of private employers.
         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 CERTAIN
  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.  LOCAL REGULATION OF EMPLOYER SCHEDULING
  PRACTICES PROHIBITED. (a)  A political subdivision of this state
  may not adopt or enforce an 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 Subsection (a) 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.
 
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