By Ramsay, Averitt, Telford, Van de Putte H.B. No. 90 74R1463 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a period of silence in public schools. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 21.940 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 21.940. PERIOD OF SILENCE. At the beginning of the 1-7 first class of each school day, all public school students shall 1-8 observe a brief period of silence, not to exceed two minutes in 1-9 duration, to be used according to the dictates of the individual 1-10 conscience of each student. 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996 1-12 school year. 1-13 SECTION 3. 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 bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.