Tex. Election Code Section 161.007
Unlawfully Prohibiting Employee from Attending Political Convention

(a)

A person commits an offense if, with respect to another over whom the person has authority in the scope of employment, the person knowingly:

(1)

refuses to permit the other person to be absent from work for the purpose of attending a precinct convention in which the other person is eligible to participate or attending a county, district, or state convention to which the other person is a delegate; or

(2)

subjects or threatens to subject the other person to a penalty for the purpose of preventing or retaliating for the other person’s attendance at a precinct convention in which the other person is eligible to participate or for the other person’s attendance at a county, district, or state convention to which the other person is a delegate.

(b)

In this section, “penalty” means a loss or reduction of wages or other benefit of employment other than a deduction for the actual time of absence from work.

(c)

An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 864, Sec. 106, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Source: Section 161.007 — Unlawfully Prohibiting Employee from Attending Political Convention, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.­161.­htm#161.­007 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).

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