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         By:  Nixon                                    S.B. No. 776

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to prohibiting the adoption of certain policies by the

 1-2     board of trustees or superintendent of a school district.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Section 22.006 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 22.006.  EXCLUSIVE ARRANGEMENT WITH EMPLOYEE

 1-7     ORGANIZATION.  A board of trustees or superintendent of a school

 1-8     district may not adopt a policy that establishes an exclusive

 1-9     arrangement of consulting with a school district employee

1-10     organization.

1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.