By: Hill H.B. No. 2160 73R1296 CAE-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to rules determining what constitutes an absence from 1-3 public schools. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.032, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) The board of trustees of each school district shall 1-8 determine how many hours a student must attend class each day to 1-9 receive credit for attending school that day. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994 1-11 school year. 1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.