{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-2501.101","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Occupations Code § 2501.101","heading":"PROHIBITED PRACTICES.","body":"(a) An owner, operator, counselor, agent, or employee of a personnel service may not:\n(1) share or attempt to share a fee paid by a person seeking employment or an employer with an employer or an agent or employee of an employer or another person provided services by the personnel service;\n(2) make or cause to be made a false promise, misrepresentation, or misleading statement or give or cause to be given misleading information to an applicant;\n(3) refer an applicant to an employer unless the personnel service has a job order for the referral;\n(4) advertise a position unless the personnel service has a job order verifiable by the employer;\n(5) procure or attempt to procure the discharge of a person from the person's current employment;\n(6) induce, solicit, or attempt to induce or solicit an employee to terminate current employment in order to obtain new employment if the current employment was obtained through that personnel service or a personnel service that has a common ownership with that personnel service unless the employee initiates the new contact;\n(7) deliver, disclose, distribute, or otherwise communicate to or receive from a person a service file or information contained in a service file, except as authorized by the personnel service that owns the file;\n(8) advertise in any medium, including a newspaper, trade publication, billboard, radio, television, card, printed notice, circular, contract, letterhead, or any other material made for public distribution, except an envelope, without clearly stating that the advertisement is by a firm providing a private personnel service;\n(9) refer an applicant to a place where the personnel service has knowledge of the existence of a strike or lockout unless the personnel service informs the applicant in writing of the strike or lockout before the referral is made; or\n(10) refer an applicant to employment harmful to the applicant's health or morals if the personnel service has knowledge of the harmful condition.\n(b) An employer or a person seeking employment may not:\n(1) make a false statement or conceal any material fact to obtain an employee or employment by or through a personnel service; or\n(2) share or attempt to share with a person subject to this chapter a fee paid or another payment made for the services of a personnel service.\nAdded by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 6, eff. June 1, 2003.","path":["OCCUPATIONS CODE","TITLE 15. OCCUPATIONS RELATED TO EMPLOYMENT","CHAPTER 2501. PERSONNEL SERVICES","SUBCHAPTER C. PROHIBITED PRACTICES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.2501.htm#2501.101","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:31Z","sha256":"cbc403f4eae99b015ab064475ba7e423d594fc93167b841b0bf739dc33154684","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-2501.002","next":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-2501.102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}