By Hochberg                                     H.B. No. 1177

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain categories of leave for state employees.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 661, Government Code, is amended by

 1-5     adding  Subchapter F to read as follows:

 1-6        SUBCHAPTER F.  OTHER CATEGORIES OF LEAVE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES

 1-7           Sec. 661.151.  PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE LEAVE.  (a)  This

 1-8     section applies to an employee who is a parent of a child who is a

 1-9     student attending a grade from prekindergarten through 12th grade.

1-10           (b)  An employee may use up to eight hours of sick leave each

1-11     calendar year to attend parent-teacher conference sessions for the

1-12     employee's children.

1-13           (c)  An employee shall give reasonable advance notice of the

1-14     employee's intention to use the sick leave to attend a

1-15     parent-teacher conference.

1-16           (d)  In this section:

1-17                 (1)  "Employee" has the meaning assigned by Section

1-18     661.001.

1-19                 (2)  "Parent" means a person standing in parental

1-20     relation.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

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