By Maxey H.B. No. 220
75R2183 PB-F
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[, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome or
1-17 infection with the human immunodeficiency virus,] that constitutes
1-18 a direct threat to the health or safety of other persons or that
1-19 makes the affected person unable to perform the duties of the
1-20 person's employment.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.