Tex. Lab. Code § 21.155 · Subchapter D. LOCAL ENFORCEMENT
REFERRAL TO LOCAL COMMISSION AND ACTION ON COMPLAINTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The Commission on Human Rights shall refer a complaint concerning discrimination in employment because of race, color, disability, religion, sex, national origin, or age that is filed with that commission to a local commission with the necessary investigatory and conciliatory powers if:
(1) the complaint has been referred to the Commission on Human Rights by the federal government; or
(2) jurisdiction over the subject matter of the complaint has been deferred to the Commission on Human Rights by the federal government.
(b) The local commission shall take appropriate action to remedy the practice alleged as discriminatory in the referred complaint.
(c) If the local commission does not act on the complaint within 60 days or a longer time that is reasonable, the Commission on Human Rights shall reassume responsibility for the complaint and take appropriate action on the complaint.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.21.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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