By Uher H.B. No. 1219 75R3090 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the first instructional day of a school year for public 1-3 school students. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 25.0811 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 25.0811. FIRST INSTRUCTIONAL DAY. A school district 1-8 may not begin instruction for students for a school year before the 1-9 first Tuesday in September. 1-10 SECTION 2. Section 25.0811, Education Code, as added by this 1-11 Act, applies beginning with the 1997-1998 school year. 1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.