By Longoria                                            H.B. No. 181

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to a requirement that school districts open school

 1-3     buildings after school hours for recreational purposes and

 1-4     tutoring.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is

 1-7     amended by adding Section 11.164 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 11.164.  ACCESS TO SCHOOL BUILDINGS.  The board of

 1-9     trustees of an independent school district shall adopt rules to

1-10     keep school buildings in the district open  for student

1-11     recreational activities and tutoring of students after school

1-12     hours.  In addition, the library in each school shall be open to

1-13     students after school hours.  A school building and a school

1-14     library must be open for a minimum of two hours each evening and

1-15     five hours a day on weekends.  A school district shall provide

1-16     supervision of the activities and use of the school building

1-17     through volunteers approved by the district.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-19     school year.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.