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.