By Solomons H.B. No. 1880 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the board of trustees of a school 1-3 district to adopt a policy permitting a period of silent reflection 1-4 or meditation for students in public schools. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 21.940 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 21.940. PERIOD OF SILENT REFLECTION OR MEDITATION. If 1-9 authorized by a policy adopted by the board of trustees of a school 1-10 district, at the beginning of each school day a student in the 1-11 district may observe a brief period of silent prayer, reflection, 1-12 or meditation to be used according to the dictates of the 1-13 individual conscience of the student. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996 1-15 school year. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.