1-1  By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 997
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 15, 1993,
    1-4  reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 15, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Ratliff            x                               
    1-9        Haley              x                               
   1-10        Barrientos         x                               
   1-11        Bivins             x                               
   1-12        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-13        Luna               x                               
   1-14        Montford           x                               
   1-15        Shapiro            x                               
   1-16        Sibley             x                               
   1-17        Turner             x                               
   1-18        Zaffirini          x                               
   1-19  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 997                By:  Zaffirini
   1-20                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-21                                AN ACT
   1-22  relating to personal business days for school district employees.
   1-23        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 13.904, Education Code,
   1-25  is amended to read as follows:
   1-26        (a)  A state minimum sick leave program consisting of five
   1-27  days per year sick leave with no limit on accumulation and
   1-28  transferable among districts shall be provided for every person
   1-29  regularly employed in the public free schools of Texas.  Local
   1-30  school districts may provide additional sick leave beyond this
   1-31  minimum.  Each employee may use up to two sick days per school year
   1-32  for personal business if the school district does not provide two
   1-33  or more days of personal leave per school year <one sick day per
   1-34  semester as a personal business day>.
   1-35        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-41                                                         Austin,
   1-42  Texas
   1-43                                                         April 15, 1993
   1-44  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-45  President of the Senate
   1-46  Sir:
   1-47  We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No. 997,
   1-48  have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
   1-49  report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
   1-50  pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
   1-51  pass and be printed.
   1-52                                                         Ratliff,
   1-53  Chairman
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   1-55                               WITNESSES
   1-56                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-57  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-58  Name:  Pat Hanks                                 x
   1-59  Representing:  A.T.P.E.
   1-60  City:  Austin
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   1-62  Name:  Wayne Bradshaw                            x
   1-63  Representing:  TFT/ULCCO
   1-64  City:  Bedford
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   1-66  Name:  Jack Kelly                                x
   1-67  Representing:  TSTA
   1-68  City:  Austin
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    2-2  Name:  Louie Hollingsworth                       x
    2-3  Representing:  Tx Classroom Teachers Assoc
    2-4  City:  Austin
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