Tex. Educ. Code § 22.006 · Subchapter A. RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND BENEFITS
DISCRIMINATION BASED ON JURY SERVICE PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A school district may not discharge, discipline, reduce the salary of, or otherwise penalize or discriminate against a school district employee because of the employee's compliance with a summons to appear as a juror.
(b) For each regularly scheduled workday on which a nonsalaried employee serves in any phase of jury service, a school district shall pay the employee the employee's normal daily compensation.
(c) An employee's accumulated personal leave may not be reduced because of the employee's service in compliance with a summons to appear as a juror.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 656, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1999.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.22.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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