By Ehrhardt H.B. No. 363 76R2392 PB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to employment discrimination by school districts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Labor Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 21.0515 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 21.0515. DISCRIMINATION BY EMPLOYER WHO IS SCHOOL 1-7 DISTRICT. (a) In this section, "sexual orientation" means 1-8 homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual orientation, real or 1-9 perceived, as manifested by identity, acts, statements, or 1-10 associations. 1-11 (b) An employer who is a school district commits an unlawful 1-12 employment practice if because of race, color, disability, 1-13 religion, sex, national origin, age, or sexual orientation the 1-14 employer: 1-15 (1) fails or refuses to hire an individual, discharges 1-16 an individual, or discriminates in any other manner against an 1-17 individual in connection with compensation or the terms, 1-18 conditions, or privileges of employment; or 1-19 (2) limits, segregates, or classifies an employee or 1-20 applicant for employment in a manner that would deprive or tend to 1-21 deprive an individual of any employment opportunity or adversely 1-22 affect in any other manner the status of an employee. 1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.