By: Johnson H.B. No. 2525
73R6783 T
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.