By Turner of Harris H.B. No. 895 76R3575 JMM-D 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 11 p.m. 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.