By Uher                                         H.B. No. 1219

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                                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.