By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 540
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the rights of pregnant municipal and county employees.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended by
    1-4  adding Section 180.004 to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 180.004.  PREGNANT EMPLOYEES.  (a)  A municipality or a
    1-6  county shall make a reasonable effort to accommodate an employee of
    1-7  the municipality or county determined by a physician to be
    1-8  partially physically restricted by a pregnancy.
    1-9        (b)  If the employee's physician certifies that the employee
   1-10  is unable to perform the duties of the employee's permanent work
   1-11  assignment, the municipality or county shall offer to assign the
   1-12  employee to a temporary work assignment that the employee is
   1-13  capable of performing, if a temporary work assignment is available.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in 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 this rule is hereby suspended.