EMPLOYMENT
Known as the Persons with an Intellectual Disability Act
The act spans §§ 591–597 (170 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case McCarthy Travis v. Hawkins F & R (2004)
Most recently applied in McCarthy Travis v. Hawkins F & R (August 2004)
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
An employer, employment agency, or labor organization may not deny a person equal opportunities in employment because of the person's intellectual disability, unless:
(1) the person's intellectual disability significantly impairs the person's ability to perform the duties and tasks of the position for which the person has applied; or
(2) the denial is based on a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business or enterprise.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.