By Wise H.B. No. 1589
75R6478 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to school district prekindergarten programs.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 29.153(g), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (g) A [If a] school district [contracts with a private
1-7 entity for the operation of the district's] prekindergarten program
1-8 [, the program] must at a minimum comply with the applicable
1-9 child-care licensing standards adopted by the Texas Department of
1-10 Human Services under Section 42.042, Human Resources Code.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
1-12 school year.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.