1-1     By:  Hochberg (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                H.B. No. 1177

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;

 1-3     April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 6, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 6, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to certain categories of leave for state employees.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Chapter 661, Government Code, is amended by

1-11     adding  Subchapter F to read as follows:

1-12        SUBCHAPTER F.  OTHER CATEGORIES OF LEAVE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES

1-13           Sec. 661.151.  PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE LEAVE.  (a)  This

1-14     section applies to an employee who is a parent of a child who is a

1-15     student attending a grade from prekindergarten through 12th grade.

1-16           (b)  An employee may use up to eight hours of sick leave each

1-17     calendar year to attend parent-teacher conference sessions for the

1-18     employee's children.

1-19           (c)  An employee shall give reasonable advance notice of the

1-20     employee's intention to use the sick leave to attend a

1-21     parent-teacher conference.

1-22           (d)  In this section:

1-23                 (1)  "Employee" has the meaning assigned by Section

1-24     661.001.

1-25                 (2)  "Parent" means a person standing in parental

1-26     relation.

1-27           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-28           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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