Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 122.0022 · Chapter 122. JUROR'S RIGHT TO REEMPLOYMENT

CONTEMPT.

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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

In addition to and without limiting any other sanction or remedy available under this chapter or other law, a court may punish by contempt an employer who terminates, threatens to terminate, penalizes, or threatens to penalize an employee because the employee performs jury or grand jury duty.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 770, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

Amended by:

Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 356 (H.B. 504), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2019.

Source of truth

Edition: Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Official file: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.122.htm
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