By Alvarado H.B. No. 254 74R20 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirement that a student perform satisfactorily 1-3 on a secondary exit-level assessment instrument to receive a high 1-4 school diploma. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 35.025, Education Code, is repealed. 1-7 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-13 passage, and it is so enacted.