1-1     By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 780

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 1997; March 3, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 3, 1997,

 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 1;

 1-5     April 3, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the use of personal leave by school district employees.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 22.003, Education Code,

1-11     is amended to read as follows:

1-12           (a)  A state minimum personal leave program consisting of

1-13     five days per year personal leave with no limit on accumulation and

1-14     transferable among districts shall be provided for school district

1-15     employees.  School districts may provide additional personal leave

1-16     beyond this minimum.  The board of trustees of a school district

1-17     may adopt a policy governing an employee's use of personal leave

1-18     granted under this subsection, except that the policy may not

1-19     restrict the purposes for which the leave may be used.

1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-21     school year.

1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.

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