By Brimer H.B. No. 3394 76R8171 CAS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to employee organization consultation policies adopted by 1-3 the boards of trustees of school districts. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 22.006 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 22.006. EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION CONSULTATION POLICIES. 1-8 (a) The board of trustees of a school district may adopt a policy 1-9 under which employee organizations are consulted concerning 1-10 district educational matters specified by the policy. 1-11 (b) A policy the board of trustees adopts under this section 1-12 must permit a representative of an employee organization to consult 1-13 directly with the board, the superintendent of the district, and 1-14 the district- and campus-level planning and decision-making 1-15 committees established under Subchapter F, Chapter 11, concerning 1-16 educational matters specified by the policy if at least: 1-17 (1) five district employees of the same employee 1-18 classification are members of the organization; and 1-19 (2) two percent of the employees in the district are 1-20 members of the organization. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.