By Luna, et al. S.B. No. 679
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 679:
By Ogden C.S.S.B. No. 679
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an extended year program for certain public school
1-3 students.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter O, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 21.562 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 21.562. OPTIONAL EXTENDED YEAR PROGRAM. (a) A school
1-8 district may apply to the commissioner of education for approval to
1-9 provide an extended year program for a period not to exceed 45 days
1-10 for students in kindergarten through grade level eight who would
1-11 otherwise be retained.
1-12 (b) In order to provide the funding necessary for a program
1-13 approved under this section, with the approval of the commissioner
1-14 a school district may provide a number of days of instruction for
1-15 students during the regular school term that is up to 5 days less
1-16 than the number otherwise required under Section 16.052(a) of this
1-17 code.
1-18 (c) The commissioner may adopt rules for the administration
1-19 of programs provided under this section.
1-20 Section 2. Section 21.032(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-21 read as follows:
1-22 (c) Unless specifically exempted by Section 21.033 of this
1-23 code, a student enrolled in a public school district must attend an
1-24 extended year program for which the student is eligible that is
2-1 provided by the district for students identified as likely not be
2-2 to promoted to the next grade level or tutorial classes required by
2-3 the district under Section 21.103(b) of this code. A district
2-4 shall provide transportation services to each student required
2-5 under this section to attend an extended year program who would be
2-6 eligible for transportation services during a regular school term.
2-7 A school district is not required to provide transportation
2-8 services to accommodate <such> students required under this section
2-9 to attend tutorial classes.
2-10 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-94
2-11 school year.
2-12 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.