By Hodge H.B. No. 3048 75R9114 E A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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.