2005S0485-1  03/08/05


By:  Barrientos                                                   S.B. No. 1348


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to records and reports kept and produced by the Texas 
Workforce Commission civil rights division.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 21.010, Labor Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(e)  Each state agency shall require an employee of the 
agency who attends a training program required by this section to 
sign a statement verifying the employee's attendance at the 
training program.  The agency shall file the statement in the 
employee's personnel file.  Web-based training records may be kept 
electronically.
	SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 21.552, 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.