75R6301 ESH-F                           

         By Flores                                              H.B. No. 939

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 939:

         By Hernandez                                       C.S.H.B. No. 939

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to jury service by public school employees.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Section 22.006 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 22.006.  DISCRIMINATION BASED ON JURY SERVICE

 1-7     PROHIBITED.  (a)  A school district may not discharge, discipline,

 1-8     reduce the compensation of, or otherwise penalize or discriminate

 1-9     against a school district employee because of the employee's

1-10     compliance with a summons to appear as a juror.

1-11           (b)  For each regularly scheduled workday on which an

1-12     employee serves in any phase of jury service, a school district

1-13     shall pay the employee:

1-14                 (1)  compensation at a daily rate, if the employee is a

1-15     salaried employee; or

1-16                 (2)  the employee's normal daily compensation, if the

1-17     employee is not a salaried employee.

1-18           (c)  An employee's accumulated personal leave may not be

1-19     reduced because of the employee's service in compliance with a

1-20     summons to appear as a juror.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-22     school year.

1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.