By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 780 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the use of personal leave by school district employees. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 22.003, Education Code, 1-4 is amended to read as follows: 1-5 (a) A state minimum personal leave program consisting of 1-6 five days per year personal leave with no limit on accumulation and 1-7 transferable among districts shall be provided for school district 1-8 employees. School districts may provide additional personal leave 1-9 beyond this minimum. The board of trustees of a school district 1-10 may adopt a policy governing an employee's use of personal leave 1-11 granted under this subsection, except that the policy may not 1-12 restrict the purposes for which the leave may be used. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-14 school year. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.