By Maxey H.B. No. 259 76R7 CAS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the manner in which salaries are paid to certain 1-3 educational aides employed by school districts. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 22.006 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 22.006. SALARY PAYMENT TO EDUCATIONAL AIDE. A school 1-8 district shall pay an educational aide employed under a contract 1-9 with the district the salary designated in the contract in 12 equal 1-10 monthly installments if the employee chooses to be paid in that 1-11 manner. 1-12 SECTION 2. Section 22.006, Education Code, as added by this 1-13 Act, applies only to a salary payment to an educational aide for 1-14 the 1999-2000 or a subsequent school year. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.