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Amend CSSB 5 as follows:                                                     

(1)  In ARTICLE 3 (page 12, line 54, through page 84, line 10, 	senate committee printing), insert a new appropriately numbered 
SECTION to read as follows:
	SECTION 3.___.  Section 451.001, Labor Code, is amended to 
read as follows:  
	Sec. 451.001.  DISCRIMINATION AGAINST EMPLOYEES PROHIBITED.  
A person may not discharge or in any other manner discriminate 
against an employee because the employee has:
		(1)  filed a workers' compensation claim in good faith;                       
		(2)  hired a lawyer to represent the employee in a 
workers' compensation claim;
		(3)  instituted or caused to be instituted in good 
faith:            
			(A)  a proceeding under Subtitle A; or                                
			(B)  if the employee's employer does not have 
workers' compensation insurance coverage, a proceeding under 
common law relating to an injury sustained by the employee in the 
course and scope of the employee's employment, including an action 
described by Section 406.033; or
		(4)  testified or is about to testify in a proceeding 
described by Subdivision (3) [under Subtitle A].
	(2)  Renumber the subsequent SECTIONS of ARTICLE 3 of the 
bill appropriately.
	(3)  In ARTICLE 7 (page 107, line 52, through page 109, line 
64, senate committee printing), insert a new appropriately numbered 
SECTION to read as follows:
	SECTION 7.___.  The change in law made by the amendment to 
Section 451.001, Labor Code, in this Act applies only to a cause of 
action that accrues on or after the effective date of this Act.  A 
cause of action that accrues before that date is governed by the law 
as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and 
that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	(4)  Renumber the subsequent SECTIONS of ARTICLE 7 of the 
bill appropriately.