By: Horn H.B. No. 870 73R4301 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to waiving the physical education requirement for 1-3 graduation from high school. 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 21.1011 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 21.1011. WAIVER OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENT. (a) 1-8 The Central Education Agency may waive a requirement imposed by the 1-9 State Board of Education or the governing board of a school 1-10 district requiring a minimum amount of physical education for 1-11 graduation from high school. 1-12 (b) The parent of or person standing in parental relation to 1-13 a student may apply to the Central Education Agency on behalf of 1-14 the student for a waiver under this section. To be eligible for 1-15 the waiver, the student must have completed at the time of 1-16 application at least 75 percent of the academic credits required by 1-17 State Board of Education rule for graduation. The application must 1-18 be in writing and state the grounds for the requested waiver. 1-19 (c) The Central Education Agency shall grant the waiver if 1-20 the agency finds that: 1-21 (1) the student is eligible to apply for the waiver; 1-22 and 1-23 (2) reasonable grounds for the waiver exist. 1-24 (d) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to 2-1 implement this section, including rules specifying the grounds on 2-2 which a waiver may be granted. 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.