By Farrar H.B. No. 945 76R2417 PB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the recovery of attorney's fees in an action alleging 1-3 discrimination against an employee who sustains a compensable 1-4 injury. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 451.002(a), Labor Code, is amended to 1-7 read as follows: 1-8 (a) A person who violates Section 451.001 is liable for 1-9 reasonable damages and attorney's fees incurred by the employee as 1-10 a result of the violation. 1-11 SECTION 2. Section 451.002(a), Labor Code, as amended by 1-12 this Act, applies only to the recovery of attorney's fees in a 1-13 cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of 1-14 this Act. Recovery of attorney's fees in a cause of action that 1-15 accrues before that date is governed by the law as it existed 1-16 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is 1-17 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-19 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.