By Edwards H.B. No. 392 74R2374 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a period of silent reflection or meditation in public 1-3 schools. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 21.940 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 21.940. PERIOD OF SILENT REFLECTION OR MEDITATION. At 1-8 the beginning of the first class of each school day, all public 1-9 school students shall observe a brief period of silent reflection 1-10 or meditation to be used according to the dictates of the 1-11 individual conscience of each student. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996 1-13 school year. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.