By:  Swinford                                                     H.B. No. 2716



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to equal employment opportunity reports.                             
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 2052.003, Government Code, is amended by 
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as 
follows:
	(a)  A state agency that sends to the Texas Workforce 
Commission civil rights division [governor] an annual report on 
equal employment opportunities with the agency shall include in the 
statistical information of the report information relating to the 
number of:
		(1)  individuals with disabilities whom the agency 
employs; and             
		(2)  individuals for whom state or federal guidelines 
encourage a more equitable balance whom the agency employs.
	(d)  Notwithstanding any other law, equal employment 
opportunity reports and personnel policy statements required to be 
filed with the governor shall be filed with the Texas Workforce 
Commission civil rights division and a report required to be 
compiled by the governor based on those equal opportunity reports 
and personnel policy statements and filed with the legislature 
shall be compiled by the Texas Workforce Commission civil rights 
division and filed with the governor and the legislature.  The 
report may be made separately or as a part of any other biennial 
report to the legislature.
	SECTION 2.  Section 21.552(a), Labor Code, is amended to 
read as follows:    
	(a)  Not later than November 1 [the seventh day] of each 
[calendar] year, [excluding legal holidays and weekends,] each 
state agency shall report equal employment opportunity information 
for the preceding fiscal [calendar] year to the commission as 
required by this subchapter.  The report must be made in the form 
prescribed by the commission and include information compiled on a 
monthly basis.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.