By Maxey H.B. No. 377
74R416 PB-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to discrimination in employment based on certain perceived
1-3 disabilities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.002(4), Labor Code, is amended to
1-6 conform to Section 2, Chapter 276, Acts of the 73rd Legislature,
1-7 Regular Session, 1993 (H.B. 860) and is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (4) "Disability" means, with respect to an individual,
1-9 a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits at least
1-10 one major life activity of that individual, <or> a record of such
1-11 an <a mental or physical> impairment, or being regarded as having
1-12 such an impairment <that substantially limits at least one major
1-13 life activity>. <The term does not include:>
1-14 <(A) a current condition of addiction to the use
1-15 of alcohol, a drug, an illegal substance, or a federally
1-16 controlled substance; or>
1-17 <(B) a currently communicable disease or
1-18 infection, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome or
1-19 infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, that constitutes a
1-20 direct threat to the health or safety of other persons or that
1-21 makes the affected person unable to perform the duties of the
1-22 person's employment.>
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.