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.
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