1-1     By:  Truan                                             S.B. No. 107
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed December 18, 1998; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
 1-4     March 2, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 2, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 107                    By:  Truan
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the designation of March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 662, Government Code, is
1-13     amended by adding Section 662.013 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 662.013.  OPTIONAL HOLIDAY FOR CESAR CHAVEZ DAY.
1-15     (a)  The 31st day of March shall be designated "Cesar Chavez Day"
1-16     in observance of the birthday of Cesar Chavez.
1-17           (b)  The administrative head of a state agency may allow an
1-18     employee of the agency to have a day off with pay on Cesar Chavez
1-19     Day in lieu of any other state holiday that occurs on a weekday,
1-20     other than a weekday on which an election is held throughout the
1-21     state, on which the state agency is required to be open but on
1-22     which the operations of the agency are required to be maintained at
1-23     only a minimum level.
1-24           (c)  On Cesar Chavez Day, each state agency shall remain open
1-25     and conduct the operations of the agency at a minimum level.
1-26           (d)  A holiday allowed under this section is in lieu of
1-27     another holiday prescribed by law.  The total number of holidays in
1-28     a year to which an employee of a state agency is entitled is not
1-29     changed by this section.
1-30           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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