By Zbranek                                       H.B. No. 465

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to residency for purposes of admission into the public

 1-3     schools of a school district free of tuition.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.   Section 25.001, Education Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:

 1-7           (k)  For purposes of this section, a person is not considered

 1-8     to reside in a school district if the person is incarcerated in a

 1-9     private detention facility in the district.  The district may

1-10     contract to provide educational services to a person incarcerated

1-11     in a private detention facility in the district.  For purposes of

1-12     this subsection, "private detention facility" means a detention

1-13     facility that is not operated by a governmental entity.

1-14           SECTION 2.   This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-15     school year.

1-16           SECTION 3.   The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.