By Shields H.B. No. 2764 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of school children during normal school 1-3 operating hours from campaigning for any person or proposition on 1-4 election ballots. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 255, Election Code is 1-7 amended by adding Section 255.088 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 255.008. UNLAWFUL USE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN (a) A person 1-9 commits an offense if the person knowingly uses school children 1-10 during normal school operating hours to campaign for any person or 1-11 proposition on election ballots. 1-12 (b) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring both to be read on three several days 1-17 in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and 1-18 this Act take effect and be in force according to its terms, and it 1-19 is so enacted.