1-1     By:  Hunter, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Truan)           H.B. No. 558
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 7, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the requirement that state employees present proof of
 1-9     selective service registration or exemption.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Chapter 651, Government Code, is amended by
1-12     adding Section 651.005 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 651.005.  REQUIREMENT OF SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION
1-14     OR EXEMPTION.  (a)  An agency in any branch of state government may
1-15     not hire a person as an employee if the person is of the age and
1-16     gender that would require a  person residing in the United States
1-17     to register with the selective service system under federal law,
1-18     unless the person presents proof of the person's:
1-19                 (1)  registration with the selective service system as
1-20     required by federal law; or
1-21                 (2)  exemption from registration with the selective
1-22     service system.
1-23           (b)  This section does not apply to a person employed by a
1-24     state agency before September 1, 1999, as long as the person's
1-25     employment by the agency is continuous.
1-26           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
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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