By:  Zaffirini                                                    S.B. No. 804

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to accommodations and work assignments for certain pregnant Department of Public Safety officers. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 411.0079 to read as follows: Sec. 411.0079. WORKING CONDITIONS FOR CERTAIN PREGNANT OFFICERS. (a) The director shall make reasonable efforts to accommodate the request of a commissioned officer of the department who is determined by a physician to be partially physically restricted by a pregnancy if the request is related to the officer's working conditions. (b) If the physician of an officer certifies that, because of the officer's pregnancy, the officer is unable to perform the duties of the officer's permanent work assignment and a temporary work assignment that the officer may perform is available, the director shall, on request of the officer, assign the officer to the temporary work assignment. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.