By Salinas                                            H.B. No. 2422
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the assignment of a work-family facilitator for the
 1-3     Work and Family Policies Clearinghouse.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 81.009, Labor Code, is amended to read as
 1-6     follows:
 1-7           Sec. 81.009.  WORK-FAMILY FACILITATOR.  The clearinghouse
 1-8     shall [may] assign an employee to serve as a work-family
 1-9     facilitator who shall be responsible for assisting state agencies
1-10     in developing work policies that assist agency employees in meeting
1-11     their responsibilities to their work and to their families.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.