By Hunter of Nueces                                   H.B. No. 2675
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the repeal of Sections: 2.01(6), (7)(B), and 5.15.
    1-3  Chapter 276, Acts 1993, 73rd Legislature, Vernon's Ann. Civ. St.
    1-4  former Article 5221k, now Chapter 21, Labor Code.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 2.01(6), 7(B), and 5.15 of former Article
    1-7  5221k, Revised statutes, now Chapter 21, Labor Code are repealed as
    1-8  follows:
    1-9              <(6)  "Employee" means an individual employed by an
   1-10  employer, including an individual subject to the civil service laws
   1-11  of the state or a political subdivision of the state, except that
   1-12  the term "employee" does not include an individual elected by the
   1-13  qualified voters to public office in the state or a political
   1-14  subdivision of the state, an individual chosen by that officer to
   1-15  be on the officer's personal staff, an appointee on the policy
   1-16  making level, or an immediate adviser with respect to the exercise
   1-17  of the constitutional or legal powers of public office.>
   1-18              <(7)  "Employer" means:>
   1-19                    <(B)  an individual elected to public office in
   1-20  this state or a political subdivision of this state; or>
   1-21        <Sec. 5.15.  COVERAGE OF PREVIOUSLY EXEMPT EMPLOYEES OF THE
   1-22  STATE OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE.  It is an unlawful
   1-23  employment practice for a person elected to public office in this
    2-1  state or a political subdivision of this state to discriminate
    2-2  because of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, or
    2-3  disability against an individual who is an employee or applicant
    2-4  for employment to serve on the elected official's personal staff,
    2-5  to serve the elected official on a policy making level, or to serve
    2-6  the elected official as an immediate advisor with respect to the
    2-7  exercise of the constitutional or legal powers of the office.>
    2-8        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
   2-13        SECTION 3.  This bill is effective on September 1, 1995.