By:  Dutton                                            H.B. No. 509
       73R2357 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the availability of certain educational programs at
    1-3  certain schools in a school district.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 21.104 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 21.104.  PROGRAM ACCESS.  If 15 or more students at a
    1-8  school request a transfer for the same school year to another
    1-9  school in the district for the purpose of enrolling in an
   1-10  educational program offered at that school, beginning with the
   1-11  following school year the district shall offer the program at the
   1-12  school from which the transfers were requested.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
   1-14  school year.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.