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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas sets workplace heat illness standards, requires training, and imposes $1,000 penalties for violations
Last action · July 14, 2025: FiledSponsor: Lulu Flores
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What This Bill Proposed
Relating to workplace heat illness prevention, including the creation of a heat illness prevention advisory board; imposing administrative penalties.
All employers statewide must provide drinking water, rest periods, and shade access to workers, while facing administrative fines of at least $1,000 per day for noncompliance.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
All employers in Texas
Employers must adopt heat illness prevention standards, provide training, post multilingual notices, and face administrative penalties of at least $1,000 per violation for noncompliance.
Indoor and outdoor workers in Texas
Workers receive mandated access to drinking water, rest periods, shade or climate-controlled environments, and safety training, alongside legal protections against retaliation for reporting violations.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When do employers have to start complying with the new heat safety rules?
What penalties do employers face for violating the heat illness prevention rules?
Who sits on the heat illness prevention advisory board?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Jul 14, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Establishment of Statewide Heat Safety Mandates
The bill shifts Texas policy by imposing uniform, enforceable workplace heat illness prevention rules and minimum $1,000 daily fines across all employers.
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Sources
capitol.texas.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 85)
- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz45Current news / social attention level
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