Texas Legal Updates

Compliance Law Updates Recently Announced:

Last Updated: 4/3/2025

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Texas Legal Updates:

February 2025

  • Texas Issues Final Rule on Prohibition Against COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates
  • Texas Adopts Amended Child Labor Rules

November 2024

  • The City of Euless Repeals Texas’s Only Predictive Scheduling Ordinance

February 2024

  • Texas Adopts New Rule Implementing New Workplace Violence Hotline Poster Requirement

December 2023

  • Texas Passes Prohibition Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

October 2023

  • Texas District Court Declares State Preemption Law Unconstitutional

September 2023

  • New Texas Law Authorizes Qualified Insurers to Provide Paid Family Leave Insurance (effective 09/01/23)
  • New Texas Law Preempts Local Leave and Other Employment Laws (effective 09/01/23)
  • New Texas Law Requires Health Benefit Plans to Cover Fertility Preservation Services (effective 09/01/23)
  • New Texas Law Requires Notice on Workplace Violence Hotline (effective 09/01/23)
  • Texas Amends Child Labor Laws to Create Enforcement Mechanisms (effective 09/01/23)
  • Texas Amends Regulations on Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements and Health Benefit Plans (effective 09/01/23)
  • Texas Enacts Law Requiring Training Materials on Human Trafficking (effective 09/01/23)
  • Texas Enacts New Health Benefit Plan Law on Prescription Contraceptive Drug Coverage (effective 09/01/23)
  • Texas Prohibits Discrimination Based on Hair Texture or Protective Hairstyles–Includes Updated Policy (effective 09/01/23)
  • Texas Prohibits Governmental Agencies from Requiring Businesses to Adopt COVID-19-Related Measures (effective 09/01/23)
  • Texas District Court Declares State Preemption Law Unconstitutional

August 2023

  • New Texas Law Preempts Local Leave and Other Employment Laws
  • Texas Amends Child Labor Laws to Create Enforcement Mechanisms
  • New Texas Law Requires Health Benefit Plans to Cover Fertility Preservation Services

July 2023

  • New Texas Law Requires Notice on Workplace Violence Hotline
  • Texas Enacts New Health Benefit Plan Law on Prescription Contraceptive Drug Coverage
  • Texas Enacts Law Requiring Training Materials on Human Trafficking
  • Texas Prohibits Discrimination Based on Hair Texture or Protective Hairstyles--Includes Updated Policy
  • Texas Amends Regulations on Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements and Health Benefit Plans
  • New Texas Law Authorizes Qualified Insurers to Provide Paid Family Leave Insurance
  • Texas Prohibits Governmental Agencies from Requiring Businesses to Adopt COVID-19-Related Measures

February 2023

  • Austin, Texas Enacts Wage Theft Ordinance

September 2022

  • Austin, Texas Prohibits Discrimination on the Basis of Hair Texture or Hairstyles Commonly Associated with Race, National Origin, Ethnicity or Culture

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