By Hodge                                        H.B. No. 1924

      75R7970 E                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to public school prekindergarten.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 29.153(e), Education Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           (e)  Each school district shall develop a system to notify

 1-7     the population in the district with children who are eligible for

 1-8     enrollment in a prekindergarten class of the availability of the

 1-9     class.  The system must include public notices issued and posted on

1-10     each elementary campus in the district in English and Spanish.  The

1-11     notification must include notice to a newspaper of general

1-12     circulation in the district and notice to electronic media serving

1-13     the district.

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.