1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 717 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1997; February 26, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education; 1-4 April 3, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, 1-5 Nays 0; April 3, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to keeping school campuses open after school hours for 1-9 recreational purposes and tutoring. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 11.164 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 11.164. ACCESS TO SCHOOL CAMPUSES. (a) The board of 1-14 trustees of an independent school district may adopt rules to keep 1-15 school campuses, including school libraries, open for student 1-16 recreational activities and tutoring of students after school 1-17 hours. 1-18 (b) A professional employee or volunteer serving in a 1-19 program for which a school campus is kept open under this section 1-20 is immune from liability to the same extent as a school district's 1-21 professional employees or volunteers, as applicable. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-23 school year. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-30 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-31 * * * * *