1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the policies of state agencies regarding work and
1-3 family issues.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 81.002(b), Labor Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (b) The executive director [administrator] of the commission
1-8 shall appoint the members of the committee, to be composed of not
1-9 more than 12 members. The committee must be composed of corporate,
1-10 consumer, and provider representatives from the public and private
1-11 sectors. One member of the committee must be a representative of
1-12 the Child Care Development Board.
1-13 SECTION 2. Chapter 81, Labor Code, is amended by adding
1-14 Section 81.009 to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 81.009. WORK-FAMILY FACILITATOR. The clearinghouse may
1-16 assign an employee to serve as a work-family facilitator who shall
1-17 be responsible for assisting state agencies in developing work
1-18 policies that assist agency employees in meeting their
1-19 responsibilities to their work and to their families.
1-20 SECTION 3. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-21 (b) No state agency may adopt rules or policies or take any
1-22 other action which violates the fundamental right and duty of a
1-23 parent to direct the upbringing of the parent's child.
1-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 425 was passed by the House on April
14, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 425 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor