78R4858 KEG-F

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.