HB 1078

AN ACT relating to the creation, distribution, and posting of a veterans

House Bill • Turner | Hickland

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89th Regular Session

Jan 14, 2025 - Jun 2, 2025 • Session ended

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What This Bill Does

This Texas bill requires employers with 50 or more employees to display a poster created by the Texas Workforce Commission that provides information about veterans' benefits and services. The poster will include details on accessing unemployment compensation, contacting the Texas Veterans Commission, exercising tax benefits, obtaining identification, and available services like education, workforce placement, and mental health treatment. Employers must display the poster in a conspicuous place in their workplace by December 1, 2025.

Subject Areas

WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS SIGNS Military & Veterans Labor--General

Bill Text

relating to the creation, distribution, and posting of a veterans
benefits and services poster in the workplace.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1.  Subtitle B, Title 4, Labor Code, is amended by
adding Chapter 320 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 320. INFORMATION ABOUT BENEFITS AND SERVICES FOR VETERANS
Sec. 320.001.  VETERANS BENEFITS AND SERVICES POSTER.  (a)
In this section, "employer" means a person who employs at least 50
(b)  The commission shall, in consultation with the Texas
Veterans Commission, create and distribute to each employer in this
state a veterans benefits and services poster containing
(A)  apply for unemployment compensation benefits
under Subtitle A and unemployment compensation benefits that may be
offered under a program administered by an agency of the federal
(B)  contact the Texas Veterans Commission,
including how an employee may access the Internet website
maintained by the Texas Veterans Commission and the veterans crisis
hotline established by the United States Department of Veterans
Affairs under 38 U.S.C. Section 1720F;
(C)  exercise any tax benefits or preferences
offered to veterans under the Tax Code or Internal Revenue Code of
(D)  obtain a driver's license or personal
identification card issued by the Department of Public Safety; and
(2)  services that may be available to veterans in this
(A)  education, workforce placement, and training
(C)  substance abuse and mental health treatment.
(c)  Each employer shall display the veterans benefits and
services poster distributed by the commission under this section in
a conspicuous place in the employer's place of business that is
SECTION 2.  Not later than December 1, 2025, the Texas
Workforce Commission shall, in consultation with the Texas Veterans
Commission, create and distribute the veterans benefits and
services poster as required by Section 320.001, Labor Code, as
SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.