Sec. 21.054. ADMISSION OR PARTICIPATION IN TRAINING PROGRAM

(a) Unless a training or retraining opportunity or program is provided under an affirmative action plan approved under a federal law, rule, or order, an employer, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee controlling an apprenticeship, on-the-job training, or other training or retraining program commits an unlawful employment practice if the employer, labor organization, or committee discriminates against an individual because of race, color, disability, religion, sex, national origin, or age in admission to or participation in the program.

(b) The prohibition against discrimination because of age in this section applies only to discrimination because of age against an individual who is at least 40 years of age but younger than 56 years of age.

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.