By Duncan                                              S.B. No. 104
         76R1745 CAS-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to keeping school campuses open after school hours for
 1-3     recreational purposes and tutoring.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 11.165 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 11.165.  ACCESS TO SCHOOL CAMPUSES.  (a)  The board of
 1-8     trustees of an independent school district may adopt rules to keep
 1-9     school campuses, including school libraries, open for recreational
1-10     activities and tutoring after school hours.
1-11           (b)  A professional employee or volunteer serving in a
1-12     program for which a school campus is kept open under this section
1-13     is immune from liability to the same extent as a school district's
1-14     professional employees or volunteers, as applicable.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-16     school year.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.