By:  Johnson                                          H.B. No. 2525
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                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to personal business days for school district employees.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 13.904(a), Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  A state minimum sick leave program consisting of five
    1-7  days per year sick leave with no limit on accumulation and
    1-8  transferable among districts shall be provided for every person
    1-9  regularly employed in the public free schools of Texas.  Local
   1-10  school districts may provide additional sick leave beyond this
   1-11  minimum.  Each employee may use up to two sick days per school year
   1-12  for personal business if the school district does not provide two
   1-13  or more days of personal leave per school year <one sick day per
   1-14  semester as a personal business day>.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.