86R33834 JSC-D
 
  By: Creighton, et al. S.B. No. 2487
 
  (Phelan)
 
  Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2487:  No.
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a prohibition against certain local regulation of
  employment leave provided by 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 EMPLOYMENT LEAVE
  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 any
  form of employment leave, including paid days off from work for
  holidays, sick leave, vacation, and personal necessity.
         (b)  An ordinance, order, rule, regulation, or policy that
  violates Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable.
         Sec. 83.003.  EFFECT OF CHAPTER. This chapter does not
  affect:
               (1)  the Texas Minimum Wage Act under Chapter 62; or
               (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.
         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.