1-1     By:  Chavez, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh)      H.B. No. 1761

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 1997;

 1-3     April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     International Relations, Trade, and Technology; May 8, 1997,

 1-5     reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 7,

 1-6     Nays 0; May 8, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Ogden

 1-8     Amend HB 1761 as follows:

 1-9           On page 1, line 34, insert the words "or the client" between

1-10     the words "employment" and "requires".

1-11                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-12                                   AN ACT

1-13     relating to a prohibition on certain requirements imposed by

1-14     temporary employment services.

1-15           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-16           SECTION 1.  Subtitle E, Title 2, Labor Code, is amended by

1-17     adding Chapter 93 to read as follows:

1-18                 CHAPTER 93.  TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

1-19           Sec. 93.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:

1-20                 (1)  "Temporary employee" means an individual hired for

1-21     a temporary employment service.

1-22                 (2)  "Temporary employment service" means a person who

1-23     employs individuals for the purpose of assigning those individuals

1-24     to the clients of the service to support or supplement the client's

1-25     workforce in a special work situation, including:

1-26                       (A)  an employee absence;

1-27                       (B)  a temporary skill shortage;

1-28                       (C)  a seasonal workload; or

1-29                       (D)  a special assignment or project.

1-30           Sec. 93.002.  PROHIBITION.  A temporary employment service

1-31     may not deny an application for, or placement in, a position of

1-32     employment to an individual for the sole reason that the individual

1-33     has not earned a high school diploma or graduate equivalency

1-34     diploma unless the position of employment requires that credential

1-35     to perform the duties of the position.

1-36           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-37           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-38     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-39     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-40     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-41     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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