SRC-SEW S.B. 520 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 520
77R2815 KSD-DBy: Shapleigh
State Affairs
2/26/2001
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, the Texas Commission on Human Rights (commission) publishes the
Minority Hiring Practices Annual Report, which requires state agencies to
report to the commission the total number of African Americans, Hispanic
Americans, females, and other persons hired for each job category by the
agency during the preceding state fiscal year.  The commission is also
charged with monitoring state agencies to determine compliance with a plan
to recruit qualified African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and females.
As proposed, S.B. 520 expands the reporting duties of the commission by
requiring the report to include a numerical and graphical presentation of
each agency's total number of minority employees, and of each agency's
percentage of minority employees within each job category, from each of the
five years preceding the current fiscal year. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 21.504, Labor Code, to requires the Commission
on Human Rights (commission) to compile the diversity information reported
under this section and submit a report based on the information to the
governor, the Legislative Budget Board, and each member of the legislature
not later than January 1 of the subsequent calendar year.  Requires the
commission's report to include numerical and graphical information
regarding the total number and the percentage of certain employees of each
state agency for each of the five years preceding the current state fiscal
year. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date:  September 1, 2001.