By Zaffirini S.B. No. 780 75R5669 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of personal leave by school district employees. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 22.003(a), Education Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (a) A state minimum personal leave program consisting of 1-7 five days per year personal leave with no limit on accumulation and 1-8 transferable among districts shall be provided for school district 1-9 employees. School districts may provide additional personal leave 1-10 beyond this minimum. The board of trustees of a school district 1-11 may adopt a policy governing an employee's use of personal leave 1-12 granted under this subsection, except the policy may not restrict 1-13 the purpose for which the leave may be used. 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.