By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1034 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to funding instruction in languages other than English in 1-2 public schools. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (k) to read as follows: 1-6 (k) The commissioner shall study and prepare a report on the 1-7 feasibility of requiring that, beginning with the 2005-2006 school 1-8 year, funding be provided so that one or more courses to learn a 1-9 language other than English are offered to each student in 1-10 kindergarten through grade 12. The commissioner shall file with 1-11 the 75th Legislature, no later than November 1, 1997, a preliminary 1-12 report that includes an assessment of the approximate annual cost 1-13 of implementing the requirement and an explanation of the manner in 1-14 which further study of the feasibility of the requirement will be 1-15 done. Not later than December 1, 1998, the commissioner shall file 1-16 with the legislature a final report on the feasibility of the 1-17 requirement that includes an assessment of the approximate annual 1-18 cost of implementing the requirement. This subsection expires 1-19 January 1, 1999. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.