By: Davis H.B. No. 2222 73R5855 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to pluralistic studies in public schools. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 21.101, Education Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-6 (j) In addition to providing instruction in the essential 1-7 elements as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, the board 1-8 of trustees of each school district shall develop and implement a 1-9 program of pluralistic studies to meet the needs of district 1-10 students. The program shall provide for pluralistic studies to be 1-11 implemented as a component of each appropriate subject. 1-12 SECTION 2. Beginning with the 1994-1995 school year, the 1-13 board of trustees of each school district shall implement a program 1-14 of pluralistic studies as provided by Section 21.101(j), Education 1-15 Code, as added by this Act. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.