1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 540 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 13, 1995; February 14, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 8, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; March 8, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Madla 1-7 Amend S.B. 540 as follows: 1-8 In SECTION 1 of the bill in added Section 180.004, Local 1-9 Government Code, strike Subsection (b) (Introduced Bill, page 1, 1-10 lines 10-14; Committee Printing page 1, lines 27-31), and 1-11 substitute the following: 1-12 (b) If the employee's physician certifies that the employee 1-13 is unable to perform the duties of the employee's permanent work 1-14 assignment, the municipality or county shall offer to assign the 1-15 employee to a temporary work assignment that the employee is 1-16 capable of performing, if a temporary work assignment is available. 1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-18 AN ACT 1-19 relating to the rights of pregnant municipal and county employees. 1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-21 SECTION 1. Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended by 1-22 adding Section 180.004 to read as follows: 1-23 Sec. 180.004. PREGNANT EMPLOYEES. (a) A municipality or a 1-24 county shall make a reasonable effort to accommodate an employee of 1-25 the municipality or county determined by a physician to be 1-26 partially disabled by a pregnancy. 1-27 (b) If the employee's physician certifies that the employee 1-28 is unable to perform the duties of the employee's permanent work 1-29 assignment, the municipality or a county shall assign the employee 1-30 to a temporary work assignment that the employee may perform, if a 1-31 temporary work assignment is available. 1-32 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-33 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-38 * * * * *