By Uher H.B. No. 334 74R967 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the state's official marine education center and 1-3 calculating the average daily attendance of public school students 1-4 who visit the center. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 21.940 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 21.940. OFFICIAL MARINE EDUCATION CENTER. The marine 1-9 education center in Palacios, Matagorda County, is the state's 1-10 official marine education center. 1-11 SECTION 2. Section 16.006, Education Code, is amended by 1-12 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-13 (e) For purposes of calculating average daily attendance 1-14 under Subsection (a), for each school day that a student attends 1-15 the state's official marine education center, as designated by 1-16 Section 21.940, as part of a school group, a student who completes 1-17 the course work required by the center is counted in the average 1-18 daily attendance of: 1-19 (1) the district in which the center is located; and 1-20 (2) the district in which the student regularly 1-21 attends school, if that district is not the district in which the 1-22 center is located. 1-23 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996 1-24 school year. 2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.