AN ACT

 1-1     relating to restricting written reports required from public school

 1-2     employees.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Section 11.164 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 11.164.  RESTRICTING WRITTEN REPORTS.  On an annual

 1-7     basis, the board of trustees of each school district shall, after

 1-8     soliciting recommendations from each campus-level committee and the

 1-9     district-level committee, consider the number and length of written

1-10     reports that employees of the district are required to prepare.

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-12     school year.

1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1221 passed the Senate on

         May 12, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1221 passed the House on

         May 28, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor