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. 1-36 * * * * *