By Duncan S.B. No. 717 75R3816 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to keeping school campuses open after school hours for 1-3 recreational purposes and tutoring. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 11.164 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 11.164. ACCESS TO SCHOOL CAMPUSES. (a) The board of 1-8 trustees of an independent school district may adopt rules to keep 1-9 school campuses, including school libraries, open for student 1-10 recreational activities and tutoring of students after school 1-11 hours. 1-12 (b) A professional employee or volunteer serving in a 1-13 program for which a school campus is kept open under this section 1-14 is immune from liability to the same extent as a school district's 1-15 professional employees or volunteers, as applicable. 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.