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.