By: Swinford (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 2716
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2005;
May 16, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on Business
and Commerce; May 20, 2005, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2005, sent to printer.)
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.
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