By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 520
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the annual report by the Commission on Human Rights
 1-3     concerning certain hiring practices.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 21.504, Labor Code, is amended to read as
 1-6     follows:
 1-7           Sec. 21.504.  ANNUAL REPORT.  (a)  Not later than November 1
 1-8     of each calendar year, each state agency shall report to the
 1-9     commission the total number of African Americans, Hispanic
1-10     Americans, females, and other persons hired for each job category
1-11     by the agency during the preceding state fiscal year.
1-12           (b)  The commission shall compile the [this] information
1-13     reported under Subsection (a) and submit a report based on the
1-14     information to the governor, [and] the Legislative Budget Board,
1-15     and each member of the legislature, if requested, not later than
1-16     January 1 of the subsequent calendar year.
1-17           (c)  The commission's report must include numerical and
1-18     graphical information regarding:
1-19                 (1)  the total number of employees of each state
1-20     agency, for each of the five years preceding the current state
1-21     fiscal year, that are:
1-22                       (A)  African American;
1-23                       (B)  Hispanic American;
1-24                       (C)  female; and
1-25                       (D)  other persons reported under Subsection (a);
 2-1     and
 2-2                 (2)  the percentage of employees of each state agency,
 2-3     for each of the five years preceding the current state fiscal year,
 2-4     that are:
 2-5                       (A)  African American;
 2-6                       (B)  Hispanic American;
 2-7                       (C)  female; and
 2-8                       (D)  other persons reported under Subsection (a).
 2-9           (d)  The commission's report must compare the information
2-10     required by Subsection (c) to any information available to the
2-11     commission relating to the state's civilian labor force.
2-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.