By: Duncan S.B. No. 104 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to keeping school campuses open after school hours for 1-2 academic and recreational purposes. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 11.165 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 11.165. ACCESS TO SCHOOL CAMPUSES. The board of 1-7 trustees of an independent school district may adopt rules to keep 1-8 school campuses, including school libraries, open after school 1-9 hours for academic programs and recreational activities. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 1-11 school year. 1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.