By Dutton H.B. No. 1174 74R4993 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to access to school textbooks. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 12, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 12.651 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 12.651. ACCESS TO TEXTBOOKS. Subject to availability, 1-7 a school district shall, at the request of a parent or guardian of 1-8 a student enrolled in the district, allow the student to take home 1-9 any textbook used by the student. The student must return the 1-10 textbook to the district at the beginning of the next school day. 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996 1-12 school year. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.