By: Truan S.B. No. 585
73R1799 JMM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a standardized system for reporting equal employment
1-3 opportunity information from state agencies and universities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 3, Texas Commission on Human Rights Act
1-6 (Article 5221k, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-7 adding Section 3.06 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 3.06. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY REPORTS. (a) In
1-9 this section, "state agency" means:
1-10 (1) a department, commission, board, office, or other
1-11 agency in the executive or legislative branch of state government
1-12 created by the constitution or a statute of this state;
1-13 (2) the Supreme Court of Texas, the Court of Criminal
1-14 Appeals of Texas, a court of appeals, the Texas Judicial Council,
1-15 the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System,
1-16 the State Bar of Texas, or another state judicial agency created by
1-17 the constitution or a statute of this state; or
1-18 (3) a university system or an institution of higher
1-19 education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code.
1-20 (b) Not later than the third workday of each month, each
1-21 state agency shall report equal employment opportunity information
1-22 for the preceding calendar month to the commission as required by
1-23 this section. The report must be made on a form provided by the
1-24 commission.
2-1 (c) Each month the commission shall collect equal employment
2-2 opportunity information reported to the commission by a state
2-3 agency. The information must include:
2-4 (1) the total number of employees of the agency and
2-5 the total number of new employees hired since the date of the last
2-6 report made by the agency;
2-7 (2) the total number of employees of the agency listed
2-8 by racial and ethnic group and the percentage of the total number
2-9 of agency employees for each racial and ethnic group, including a
2-10 distinction for those categories between the total number of
2-11 employees and the total number of employees hired since the date of
2-12 the last report made by the agency;
2-13 (3) the total number of male employees and the total
2-14 number of female employees of the agency, including a distinction
2-15 for those categories between the total number of employees and the
2-16 total number of employees hired since the date of the last report
2-17 made by the agency;
2-18 (4) the total number of male and total number of
2-19 female employees of the agency for each racial and ethnic group,
2-20 including a distinction for those categories between the total
2-21 number of employees and the total number of employees hired since
2-22 the date of the last report made by the agency; and
2-23 (5) the total number of employees of the agency listed
2-24 by job classification and the total number of employees for each
2-25 sex, race, and ethnic group listed by job classification, including
2-26 a distinction for those categories between the total number of
2-27 employees and the total number of employees hired since the date of
3-1 the last report made by the agency.
3-2 (d) The commission shall compile the information reported to
3-3 the commission under this section with the assistance of the
3-4 comptroller and the uniform statewide accounting system.
3-5 (e) Not later than December 15 of each year, the commission
3-6 shall provide each state agency with a copy of the form to be used
3-7 to make a report under this section for each month of the following
3-8 year.
3-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, except
3-10 that a state agency is not required to make its first report under
3-11 this Act until January 5, 1994.
3-12 SECTION 3. (a) The Commission on Human Rights shall adopt
3-13 rules not later than November 1, 1993, concerning the information
3-14 required to be included in a report under this Act.
3-15 (b) The Commission on Human Rights shall adopt a form
3-16 prepared with the assistance of the comptroller for a state agency
3-17 to make a report required by this Act not later than December 1,
3-18 1993.
3-19 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.