By: Flores H.B. No. 1416
73R5867 CAE-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the age of a child required to attend public schools.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 21.032(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) Unless specifically exempted by Section 21.033 of this
1-7 code or under other laws or unless a child is at least 18 <17>
1-8 years of age or <and> has been issued a high school diploma or a
1-9 high school equivalency certificate, every child in the state who
1-10 is as much as six years of age, or who is less than seven years of
1-11 age and has previously been enrolled in first grade, and who has
1-12 not completed the academic year in which the child's 18th <his
1-13 17th> birthday occurred shall be required to attend the public
1-14 schools in the district of the child's <his> residence or in some
1-15 other district to which the child <he> may be transferred as
1-16 provided or authorized by law a minimum of 170 days of the regular
1-17 school term of the district in which the child resides or to which
1-18 the child <he> has been transferred.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
1-20 school year.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.