By Flores H.B. No. 269 76R2047 ESH-F 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 compensation of, or otherwise penalize or discriminate 1-9 against a school district employee because of the employee's 1-10 compliance with a summons to appear as a juror. 1-11 (b) For each regularly scheduled workday on which an 1-12 employee serves in any phase of jury service, a school district 1-13 shall pay the employee: 1-14 (1) compensation at a daily rate, if the employee is a 1-15 salaried employee; or 1-16 (2) the employee's normal daily compensation, if the 1-17 employee is not a salaried employee. 1-18 (c) An employee's accumulated personal leave may not be 1-19 reduced because of the employee's service in compliance with a 1-20 summons to appear as a juror. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 1-22 school year. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted. 2-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-7 Amend H.B. No. 269 as follows: 2-8 (1) On page 1, line 8, strike "compensation" and substitute 2-9 "salary". 2-10 (2) On page 1, strike lines 11-17 and substitute the 2-11 following: 2-12 (b) For each regularly scheduled workday on which a 2-13 non-salaried employee serves in any phase of jury service, a school 2-14 district shall pay the employee the employee's normal daily 2-15 compensation. 2-16 76R9360 ESH-D Oliveira