By:  Truan, et al.                                     S.B. No. 107
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the designation of March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 662, Government Code, is
 1-4     amended by adding Section 662.013 to read as follows:
 1-5           Sec. 662.013.  OPTIONAL HOLIDAY FOR CESAR CHAVEZ DAY.
 1-6     (a)  The 31st day of March shall be designated "Cesar Chavez Day"
 1-7     in observance of the birthday of Cesar Chavez.
 1-8           (b)  The administrative head of a state agency may allow an
 1-9     employee of the agency to have a day off with pay on Cesar Chavez
1-10     Day in lieu of any other state holiday that occurs on a weekday,
1-11     other than a weekday on which an election is held throughout the
1-12     state, on which the state agency is required to be open but on
1-13     which the operations of the agency are required to be maintained at
1-14     only a minimum level.
1-15           (c)  On Cesar Chavez Day, each state agency shall remain open
1-16     and conduct the operations of the agency at a minimum level.
1-17           (d)  A holiday allowed under this section is in lieu of
1-18     another holiday prescribed by law.  The total number of holidays in
1-19     a year to which an employee of a state agency is entitled is not
1-20     changed by this section.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.