1-1 By: Luna S.B. No. 471 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 1997; February 11, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education; 1-4 April 25, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 25, 1997, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 471 By: Luna 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to public school admission and attendance. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 37.001, Education Code, is amended by 1-13 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-14 (c) A district may require a person who voluntarily enrolls 1-15 in school after completing the academic year in which the person's 1-16 18th birthday occurred to attend school each school day for the 1-17 entire period the program of instruction is offered. If a person 1-18 voluntarily enrolled has unexcused absences from school of 10 or 1-19 more days or parts of days in one six-month period or three or more 1-20 days or parts of days within a four-week period, a school district 1-21 may: 1-22 (1) withdraw the person from enrollment; and 1-23 (2) prohibit the person from re-enrolling in the 1-24 district until the following semester. 1-25 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-26 school year. 1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-32 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-33 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-34 * * * * *