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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 269 was passed by the House on May 8,
         1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 269 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor