1-1     By:  Duncan                                            S.B. No. 104
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed December 17, 1998; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     March 8, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 8, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 104                By:  Zaffirini
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to keeping school campuses open after school hours for
1-11     academic and recreational purposes.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 11.165 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 11.165.  ACCESS TO SCHOOL CAMPUSES.  The board of
1-16     trustees of an independent school district may adopt rules to keep
1-17     school campuses, including school libraries, open after school
1-18     hours for academic programs and recreational activities.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-20     school year.
1-21           SECTION 3.  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
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.
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