S.B. No. 370
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to employment protections for jury service.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 122.001, Civil Practice and Remedies
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 122.001.  PROTECTION OF JURORS' EMPLOYMENT; JUROR'S
  RIGHT TO REEMPLOYMENT; NOTICE OF INTENT TO RETURN. (a)  An [A
  private] employer may not discharge, threaten to discharge,
  intimidate, or coerce any [terminate the employment of a] permanent
  employee because the employee serves as a juror, or for the
  employee's attendance or scheduled attendance in connection with
  the service, in any court in the United States.
         (b)  An employee who is discharged, threatened with
  discharge, intimidated, or coerced [whose employment is
  terminated] in violation of this section is entitled to return to
  the same employment that the employee held when summoned for jury
  service if the employee, as soon as practical after release from
  jury service, gives the employer actual notice that the employee
  intends to return.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 370 passed the Senate on
  April 17, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 1.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 370 passed the House on
  May 14, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 0, two
  present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor