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.