By Hawley                                        H.B. No. 825

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the admission of public school students who have been

 1-3     expelled.

 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)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the

 1-8     board of trustees is not required to admit a person if:

 1-9                 (1)  the person has been expelled by another school

1-10     district; and

1-11                 (2)  the period of expulsion has not expired.

1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-13     school year.

1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.