73R1559 CAS-D By Edwards H.B. No. 251 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a school uniform pilot program. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 21.938 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 21.938. SCHOOL UNIFORM PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The board 1-7 of trustees of a school district with 185,000 or more students in 1-8 average daily attendance shall establish a school uniform pilot 1-9 program. 1-10 (b) The board shall select schools to participate in the 1-11 program from among schools that volunteer. The board may limit the 1-12 number of schools that participate in the program but shall select 1-13 schools so that all grade levels in the district are represented. 1-14 (c) Each school participating in the program shall choose a 1-15 school uniform that satisfies the district dress code. Each 1-16 student attending the school shall wear the uniform. 1-17 (d) The board shall adopt rules necessary to implement the 1-18 program, including rules for selecting schools to participate in 1-19 the program and for applying to participate. 1-20 (e) The board shall implement the program at the beginning 1-21 of the 1994-1995 school year. This section expires September 1, 1-22 1997. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted. 2-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-7 Amend H.B. 251 as follows: 2-8 Pg. 1, line 8, Strike "shall" and substitute may. 2-9 Hochberg