By: Longoria H.B. No. 1322 73R3848 CAE-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a requirement that school districts open school 1-3 buildings after school hours for recreational purposes and 1-4 tutoring. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter M, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 21.491 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 21.491. ACCESS TO SCHOOL BUILDINGS. The board of 1-9 trustees of a school district shall adopt rules to keep school 1-10 buildings in the district open to the public for recreational 1-11 activities and tutoring after school hours. In addition, the 1-12 library in each school shall be open to the public after school 1-13 hours. A school building and a school library must be open for a 1-14 minimum of two hours each evening and five hours a day on weekends. 1-15 A school district shall provide supervision of the use of the 1-16 school building through volunteers approved by the district. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994 1-18 school year. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.