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. 1-32 * * * * *