Tex. Occ. Code § 2022.055 · Subchapter B. COMMISSION STAFF
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY POLICY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The executive director or the executive director's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement to assure implementation of a program of equal employment opportunity under which all personnel transactions are made without regard to race, color, disability, sex, religion, age, or national origin.
(b) The policy statement must include:
(1) personnel policies, including policies relating to recruitment, evaluation, selection, appointment, training, and promotion of personnel that comply with the requirements of Chapter 21, Labor Code;
(2) a comprehensive analysis of the commission workforce that meets federal and state laws, rules, regulations, and instructions directly promulgated from those laws, rules, and regulations;
(3) procedures by which a determination can be made about the extent of underuse in the commission workforce of all persons for whom federal or state laws, rules, regulations, and instructions directly promulgated from those laws, rules, and regulations encourage a more equitable balance; and
(4) reasonable methods to appropriately address those areas of underuse.
(c) The policy statement must:
(1) cover an annual period and be updated annually;
(2) be reviewed by the Texas Workforce Commission for compliance with Subsection (b)(1); and
(3) be filed with the governor's office.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 963 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2019.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.2022.htm
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