By Davila                                             H.B. No. 2579
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the unlawful employment practice of an employer
    1-3  requiring employees to speak a particular language at the work
    1-4  place during non-duty hours.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  The Commission on Human Rights Act (Article
    1-7  5221k, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding
    1-8  Section 5.011 to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 5.011.  EMPLOYER LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS.  It is an
   1-10  unlawful employment practice for an employer to require an employee
   1-11  to speak only a particular language while on the job or in the work
   1-12  place during the employee's non-duty hours or prohibit an employee
   1-13  from speaking a particular language while on the job or in the work
   1-14  place during the employee's non-duty hours.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded conditions of the calendars on both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and the rule is hearby suspended.