1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the application of certain laws prohibiting employment

 1-3     discrimination.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 21.125(a), Labor Code, is amended to read

 1-6     as follows:

 1-7           (a)  Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, an

 1-8     unlawful employment practice is established when the complainant

 1-9     demonstrates that race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age,

1-10     or disability was a motivating factor for an employment practice,

1-11     even if other factors also motivated the practice, unless race,

1-12     color, sex, national origin, religion, age, or disability is

1-13     combined with objective job-related factors to attain diversity in

1-14     the employer's work force.

1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-16     applies only to a perfected complaint filed with the Commission on

1-17     Human Rights on or after that date.  A perfected complaint filed

1-18     before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the

1-19     perfected complaint was filed, and the former law is continued in

1-20     effect for that purpose.

1-21           SECTION 3.  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.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3048 was passed by the House on May

         10, 1997, by a non-record vote.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3048 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor