By Uher H.B. No. 1034 75R4515 ESH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to personal leave for public school teachers. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 22.003, Education Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-6 (c) A school district may not reduce the daily salary rate 1-7 of a teacher by more than the daily pay rate of a substitute for 1-8 the teacher if: 1-9 (1) the teacher is absent from work for personal or 1-10 family illness for a period exceeding the teacher's accumulated 1-11 days of personal leave; or 1-12 (2) the teacher takes assault leave under Subsection 1-13 (b), and the district later changes the leave status and charges 1-14 the leave against the teacher's personal leave for a period 1-15 exceeding the teacher's accumulated days of personal leave. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-17 school year. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.