By Danburg                                            H.B. No. 1951
       74R6867 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the rights of pregnant municipal and county employees.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Section 180.004 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 180.004.  PREGNANT EMPLOYEES.  (a)  A municipality or a
    1-7  county shall make a reasonable effort to accommodate an employee of
    1-8  the municipality or county determined by a physician to be
    1-9  partially physically restricted by a pregnancy.
   1-10        (b)  If the employee's physician certifies that the employee
   1-11  is unable to perform the duties of the employee's permanent work
   1-12  assignment, the municipality or a county shall assign the employee
   1-13  to a temporary work assignment that the employee may perform, if a
   1-14  temporary work assignment is available.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.