By: Dutton H.B. No. 1414 73R3238 CAE-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the admission of a child to first grade. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 21.0321 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 21.0321. OPTION TO ATTEND FIRST GRADE. A child who 1-7 will attain the age of six years after September 1 but before 1-8 January 1 of a regular school term is entitled to be enrolled in 1-9 the first grade for that school term on the written request of the 1-10 child's parent or person standing in parental relation to the 1-11 child. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994 1-13 school year. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.