1-1 By: Cook (Senate Sponsor - Carriker) H.B. No. 603
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 12, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 12, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the admission of foreign exchange students to the
1-22 public free schools.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Section 21.031(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-25 read as follows:
1-26 (c) The board of trustees of any public free school district
1-27 of this state shall admit into the public free schools of the
1-28 district free of tuition all persons who are either citizens of the
1-29 United States or legally admitted aliens and who are over five and
1-30 not over 21 years of age at the beginning of the scholastic year
1-31 if:
1-32 (1) such person or either parent of the person resides
1-33 within the school district;
1-34 (2) such person and his guardian or other person
1-35 having lawful control of him under an order of a court reside
1-36 within the school district;
1-37 (3) such person has established a separate residence
1-38 under Subsection (d) of this section; <or>
1-39 (4) such person is homeless, as defined by 42 U.S.C.A.
1-40 Sec. 11302, regardless of the residence of the person, of either
1-41 parent of the person, or of the person's guardian or other person
1-42 having lawful control of him; or
1-43 (5) the person is a foreign exchange student placed
1-44 with a host family that resides in the school district by a
1-45 nationally recognized foreign exchange program, unless the school
1-46 district has applied for and been granted a waiver by the
1-47 commissioner of education due to the hardship this requirement
1-48 would impose on the district.
1-49 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
1-50 school year.
1-51 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-52 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-53 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-54 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-55 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-56 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-57 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-58 * * * * *
1-59 Austin,
1-60 Texas
1-61 May 12, 1993
1-62 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-63 President of the Senate
1-64 Sir:
1-65 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred H.B. No. 603,
1-66 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-67 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-68 pass and be printed.
2-1 Ratliff,
2-2 Chairman
2-3 * * * * *
2-4 WITNESSES
2-5 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 603.