76R10733 JMM-D                           
         By Turner of Harris                                    H.B. No. 895
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 895:
         By Homer                                           C.S.H.B. No. 895
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to restrictions on the employment of certain children;
 1-3     providing penalties.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.    Section 51.013, Labor Code, is amended by
 1-6     amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read
 1-7     as follows:
 1-8           (d)  A person commits an offense if the person permits a
 1-9     child who is 16 or 17 years of age, is employed by the person, and
1-10     is enrolled in a term of public or private school to work between
1-11     the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. on a day that is followed by a
1-12     school day.
1-13           (e)  A person commits an offense if the person permits a
1-14     child who is employed by the person and is enrolled in a term of
1-15     public or private school to work in one week more than 40 hours
1-16     during the days of the week that are followed by a school day.
1-17           (f)  The commission may adopt rules for determining whether
1-18     hardships exist.  If, on the application of a child, the commission
1-19     determines  that a hardship exists for that child, this section
1-20     does not apply to that child.
1-21           SECTION 2.    This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.