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Texas Insurance Code - Section 31.043. Equal Employment Opportunity Policy; Report

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§ 31.043. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY POLICY; REPORT. (a) The commissioner or the commissioner's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement to ensure 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. The policy statement must include: (1) personnel policies, including policies relating to recruitment, evaluation, selection, appointment, training, and promotion of personnel that are in compliance with Chapter 21, Labor Code; (2) a comprehensive analysis of the department workforce that meets federal and state guidelines; (3) procedures by which a determination can be made of significant underuse in the department workforce of all persons for whom federal or state guidelines encourage a more equitable balance; and (4) reasonable methods to appropriately address those areas of significant underuse. (b) A policy statement prepared under this section must: (1) cover an annual period; (2) be updated annually; (3) be reviewed by the Commission on Human Rights for compliance with Subsection (a); and (4) be filed with the governor. (c) The governor shall deliver a biennial report to the legislature based on the information received under Subsection (b). The report may be made separately or as a part of other biennial reports made to the legislature. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 101, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

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