{"id":58907,"date":"2015-03-25T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58907"},"modified":"2015-03-25T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T13:51:54","slug":"texas-stolen-valor-bill-to-aid-businesses-and-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58907","title":{"rendered":"Texas&#8217; Stolen Valor bill to aid businesses and employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My search engine alerts are firing on all cylinders as State legislatures begin the season with easy-to-pass stolen valor bills, but <a href=\"http:\/\/starlocalmedia.com\/planocourier\/news\/sen-van-taylor-s-bill-authorizing-termination-of-contracts-for\/article_d045a772-d262-11e4-9386-a3258ed0840f.html\">this one from Texas<\/a> caught my eye because it is so different from the others. The new bill passed the Texas Senate unanimously. It empowers business owners to fire employes and terminate contracts with folks who lie about their service.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I heard news stories of individuals claiming fictitious military records, I was dismayed to learn that Texas law did not give express legal authority for employers to terminate a contract for such actions,&#8221; Taylor said in a press release. &#8220;After talking with fellow veterans in our community, I immediately got to work drafting legislation to fix this problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform are beyond measure, and by unanimously passing the Stolen Valor Act, the Texas Senate has sent a unified message of support to all those who have bravely served our nation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, we&#8217;ve seen countless fellows who use their fictitious military service to benefit their businesses, and when it comes out, folks that they&#8217;ve hoodwinked need an escape, because if they lie about their military service, it&#8217;s more than likely true that they&#8217;ll lie in other business dealings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My search engine alerts are firing on all cylinders as State legislatures begin the season with &hellip; <a title=\"Texas&#8217; Stolen Valor bill to aid businesses and employers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58907\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas&#8217; Stolen Valor bill to aid businesses and employers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}