By McReynolds H.B. No. 2361 76R7651 BDH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of public school educators' days of service for 1-3 which instruction is not required. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.253(e), Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (e) In accordance with the administrative procedures 1-8 established under Section 11.251(b), the campus-level committee 1-9 shall be involved in decisions in the areas of planning, budgeting, 1-10 curriculum, staffing patterns, staff development, and school 1-11 organization. The campus-level committee must approve: 1-12 (1) the use of educators' days of service for which 1-13 instruction is not required; and 1-14 (2) the portions of the campus plan addressing campus 1-15 staff development needs. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 1-17 school year. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.