By Harris S.B. No. 352 74R1472 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing a school district to require students to 1-3 wear uniforms. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 21.940 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 21.940. SCHOOL UNIFORMS. (a) The board of trustees of 1-8 a school district may adopt rules that require students at a school 1-9 in the district to wear school uniforms if the board determines 1-10 that the requirement would improve the learning environment at the 1-11 school. 1-12 (b) A parent or guardian of a student assigned to attend a 1-13 school at which students are required to wear school uniforms may 1-14 choose for the student to be exempted from the requirement or to 1-15 transfer to a school at which students are not required to wear 1-16 uniforms and at which space is available if the parent or guardian 1-17 provides a written statement that, as determined by the board of 1-18 trustees, states a bona fide religious or philosophical objection 1-19 to the requirement. 1-20 (c) Students at a school at which uniforms are required 1-21 shall wear the uniforms beginning on the first day of the school 1-22 year following the school year in which the board of trustees 1-23 adopts the rules that require the uniforms. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.