By: Duncan S.B. No. 717 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to keeping school campuses open after school hours for 1-2 recreational purposes and tutoring. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 11.164 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 11.164. ACCESS TO SCHOOL CAMPUSES. (a) The board of 1-7 trustees of an independent school district may adopt rules to keep 1-8 school campuses, including school libraries, open for recreational 1-9 activities and tutoring after school hours. 1-10 (b) A professional employee or volunteer serving in a 1-11 program for which a school campus is kept open under this section 1-12 is immune from liability to the same extent as a school district's 1-13 professional employees or volunteers, as applicable. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-15 school year. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.