By Flores H.B. No. 269 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to jury service by public school employees. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 22.006 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 22.006. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON JURY SERVICE 1-7 PROHIBITED. (a) A school district may not discharge, discipline, 1-8 reduce the salary of, or otherwise penalize or discriminate against 1-9 a school district employee because of the employee's compliance 1-10 with a summons to appear as a juror. 1-11 (b) For each regularly scheduled workday on which a 1-12 nonsalaried employee serves in any phase of jury service, a school 1-13 district shall pay the employee the employee's normal daily 1-14 compensation. 1-15 (c) An employee's accumulated personal leave may not be 1-16 reduced because of the employee's service in compliance with a 1-17 summons to appear as a juror. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 1-19 school year. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.