73R1779 CAE-D
          By Cook                                                H.B. No. 603
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the admission of foreign exchange students to the
    1-3  public free schools.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.031(c), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The board of trustees of any public free school district
    1-8  of this state shall admit into the public free schools of the
    1-9  district free of tuition all persons who are either citizens of the
   1-10  United States or legally admitted aliens and who are over five and
   1-11  not over 21 years of age at the beginning of the scholastic year
   1-12  if:
   1-13              (1)  such person or either parent of the person resides
   1-14  within the school district;
   1-15              (2)  such person and his guardian or other person
   1-16  having lawful control of him under an order of a court reside
   1-17  within the school district;
   1-18              (3)  such person has established a separate residence
   1-19  under Subsection (d) of this section; <or>
   1-20              (4)  such person is homeless, as defined by 42 U.S.C.A.
   1-21  Sec. 11302, regardless of the residence of the person, of either
   1-22  parent of the person, or of the person's guardian or other person
   1-23  having lawful control of him; or
   1-24              (5)  the person is a foreign exchange student placed
    2-1  with a host family that resides in the school district by a
    2-2  nationally recognized foreign exchange program.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
    2-4  school year.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.