HBA-SEP H.B. 1089 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1089
By: Chavez
State Affairs
2/21/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Current law requires state agencies to report to the Commission on Human
Rights (commission) the total number of persons, by ethnicity and gender,
hired for each job category, but does not require the commission's report
to include numerical and statistical data or percentages of state employees
who are of certain ethnic and gender groups.  This additional information
may be beneficial to facilitate hiring analysis, to compare data, and to
document hiring practices.  House Bill 1089 modifies the contents of the
annual report of the Commission on Human Rights concerning certain hiring
practices to include, for five years preceding the current fiscal year,
numerical and graphical information regarding the total number and
percentage of employees of each state agency who are of certain groups. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 1089 amends the Labor Code to modify the contents of the annual
report of the Commission on Human Rights concerning certain hiring
practices to include, for five years preceding the current fiscal year,
numerical and graphical information regarding the total number and
percentage of employees of each state agency who are African American,
Hispanic American, female, and other persons hired for each job category.
The bill requires the commission to send the report to each member of the
legislature, in addition to the governor and the Legislative Budget Board.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2001.