1-1     By:  Hodge (Senate Sponsor - Cain)                    H.B. No. 3048

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997;

 1-3     May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the application of certain laws prohibiting employment

 1-9     discrimination.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 21.125(a), Labor Code, is amended to read

1-12     as follows:

1-13           (a)  Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, an

1-14     unlawful employment practice is established when the complainant

1-15     demonstrates that race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age,

1-16     or disability was a motivating factor for an employment practice,

1-17     even if other factors also motivated the practice, unless race,

1-18     color, sex, national origin, religion, age, or disability is

1-19     combined with objective job-related factors to attain diversity in

1-20     the employer's work force.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-22     applies only to a perfected complaint filed with the Commission on

1-23     Human Rights on or after that date.  A perfected complaint filed

1-24     before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the

1-25     perfected complaint was filed, and the former law is continued in

1-26     effect for that purpose.

1-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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