By Maxey H.B. No. 220
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to discrimination in employment based on certain perceived
1-3 disabilities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.002(6), Labor Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (6) "Disability" means, with respect to an individual,
1-8 a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits at least
1-9 one major life activity of that individual, a record of such an
1-10 impairment, or being regarded as having such an impairment. The
1-11 term does not include:
1-12 (A) a current condition of addiction to the use
1-13 of alcohol, a drug, an illegal substance, or a federally controlled
1-14 substance; or
1-15 (B) a currently communicable disease or
1-16 infection as defined in Section 81.003, Health and Safety Code, or
1-17 required to be reported under Section 81.041, Health and Safety
1-18 Code, [including acquired immune deficiency syndrome or infection
1-19 with the human immunodeficiency virus,] that constitutes a direct
1-20 threat to the health or safety of other persons or that makes the
1-21 affected person unable to perform the duties of the person's
1-22 employment.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.