By Shields H.B. No. 907
74R1639 KKA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to prekindergarten classes in public schools.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 21.136(a) and (f), Education Code, are
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) Any school district may offer prekindergarten classes<,
1-7 but a district shall offer prekindergarten classes if the district
1-8 identifies 15 or more eligible children who are at least four years
1-9 of age. A school district may offer prekindergarten classes if the
1-10 district identifies 15 or more eligible children who are at least
1-11 three years of age>.
1-12 (f) Each school district that offers a prekindergarten class
1-13 shall develop a system to notify the population in the district
1-14 with children who are eligible for enrollment <in a prekindergarten
1-15 class> of the availability of the class. The system must include
1-16 public notices issued in English and Spanish.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 21.136(d), Education Code, is repealed.
1-18 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996
1-19 school year.
1-20 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.