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.