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.
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