1-1     By:  Luna                                             S.B. No. 1221

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1997; March 17, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 5, 1997,

 1-4     reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 5, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1221                    By:  Luna

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to restricting written reports required from public school

1-10     employees.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is

1-13     amended by adding Section 11.164 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 11.164.  RESTRICTING WRITTEN REPORTS.  On an annual

1-15     basis, the board of trustees of each school district shall, after

1-16     soliciting recommendations from each campus-level committee and the

1-17     district-level committee, consider the number and length of written

1-18     reports that employees of the district are required to prepare.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-20     school year.

1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.

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