By Longoria H.B. No. 184 76R918 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a requirement that school districts open school 1-3 buildings after school hours for recreational purposes and 1-4 tutoring. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 11.165 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 11.165. ACCESS TO SCHOOL BUILDINGS. (a) The board of 1-9 trustees of an independent school district shall adopt rules to 1-10 keep school buildings in the district open for student recreational 1-11 activities and tutoring of students after school hours. The 1-12 library in each school shall also be open to students after school 1-13 hours. 1-14 (b) A school building and a school library must be open for 1-15 a minimum of two hours each evening and five hours a day on 1-16 weekends. 1-17 (c) A school district shall provide supervision of the 1-18 activities and use of the school building through volunteers 1-19 approved by the district. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 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 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.