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Texas Labor Code - Section 207.053. Refusal To Treat Communicable Disease

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§ 207.053. REFUSAL TO TREAT COMMUNICABLE DISEASE.  (a) An 
individual is disqualified for benefits if the individual:
		(1)  left the individual's last work voluntarily rather 
than provide services included within the course and scope of the 
individual's employment to an individual infected with a 
communicable disease;  or
		(2)  was discharged from the individual's last work 
because the individual refused to provide services included within 
the course and scope of the individual's employment to an 
individual infected with a communicable disease.
	(b)  An individual is not disqualified under this section 
unless the person for whom the individual last worked made 
available to the individual the facilities, equipment, training, 
and supplies necessary to permit the individual to take reasonable 
precautions to preclude the infection of the individual with the 
communicable disease.
	(c)  Disqualification for benefits under this section 
continues until the individual has returned to employment and:
		(1)  worked for six weeks;  or                                                
		(2)  earned wages equal to six times the individual's 
weekly benefit amount.

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.                    

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