By Flores                                        H.B. No. 939

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

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.