Sec. 180.004.  WORKING CONDITIONS FOR PREGNANT EMPLOYEES.  (a)  In this section, "office" means a municipal or county office, department, division, program, commission, bureau, board, committee, or similar entity.
(b)  A municipality or a county shall make a reasonable effort to accommodate an employee of the municipality or county who is determined by a physician to be partially physically restricted by a pregnancy.
(c)  If the physician of a municipal or county employee certifies that the employee is unable to perform the duties of the employee's permanent work assignment as a result of the employee's pregnancy and if a temporary work assignment that the employee may perform is available in the same office, the office supervisor who is responsible for personnel decisions shall assign the employee to the temporary work assignment.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 533, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.