1-1 By: Flores (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 269 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999; 1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to jury service by public school employees. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is 1-11 amended by adding Section 22.006 to read as follows: 1-12 Sec. 22.006. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON JURY SERVICE 1-13 PROHIBITED. (a) A school district may not discharge, discipline, 1-14 reduce the salary of, or otherwise penalize or discriminate against 1-15 a school district employee because of the employee's compliance 1-16 with a summons to appear as a juror. 1-17 (b) For each regularly scheduled workday on which a 1-18 nonsalaried employee serves in any phase of jury service, a school 1-19 district shall pay the employee the employee's normal daily 1-20 compensation. 1-21 (c) An employee's accumulated personal leave may not be 1-22 reduced because of the employee's service in compliance with a 1-23 summons to appear as a juror. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 1-25 school year. 1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-31 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-32 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-33 * * * * *