Amend CSHB 1976 on third reading as follows:
      (1)  In SECTION 15 of the bill, in added Section 21.453(c),
Labor Code, strike the last sentence and substitute the following:
"Not later than the 90th day after the date that a state agency
receives revisions to the agency's personnel policies and
procedures recommended by the commission under this subsection, the
agency by written order shall:
            (1)  implement the recommended revisions;
            (2)  implement revisions other than the recommended
revisions and state each finding of the agency on which the
implemented revisions are based; or
            (3)  reject the recommended revisions and state each
reason for the rejection.".
      (2)  In SECTION 15 of the bill, in added Section 21.453(d),
Labor Code, strike "as required by this section".
      (3)  In SECTION 15 of the bill, in added Section 21.454,
Labor Code, strike "as required by Section 21.453".
      (4)  In SECTION 15 of the bill, in added Section
21.456(b)(1), Labor Code, strike "or failed to implement
recommended revisions to the agency's personnel policies and
procedures as required by Section 21.453".
      (5)  In SECTION 15 of the bill, in added Section 21.502,
Labor Code, in the first sentence, between "recruit" and "African
Americans", insert "capable and qualified".