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.