By: Eckels H.B. No. 1019
73R2207 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to exemptions from compulsory school attendance
1-3 requirements.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.032(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) Unless specifically exempted by Section 21.033 of this
1-8 code or under other laws or unless a child <is at least 17 years of
1-9 age and> has graduated from high school or has been issued a high
1-10 school equivalency certificate, every child in the state who is as
1-11 much as six years of age, or who is less than seven years of age
1-12 and has previously been enrolled in first grade, and who has not
1-13 completed the academic year in which his 17th birthday occurred
1-14 shall be required to attend the public schools in the district of
1-15 his residence or in some other district to which he may be
1-16 transferred as provided or authorized by law a minimum of 170 days
1-17 of the regular school term of the district in which the child
1-18 resides or to which he has been transferred.
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.