1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1034 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 1997; March 11, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 21, 1997, 1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 21, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1034 By: Barrientos 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to funding instruction in languages other than English in 1-10 public schools. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by 1-13 adding Subsection (k) to read as follows: 1-14 (k) The commissioner shall study and prepare a report on the 1-15 feasibility of requiring that, beginning with the 2005-2006 school 1-16 year, funding be provided so that one or more courses to learn a 1-17 language other than English are offered to each student in 1-18 kindergarten through grade 12. The commissioner shall file with 1-19 the 75th Legislature, no later than November 1, 1997, a preliminary 1-20 report that includes an assessment of the approximate annual cost 1-21 of implementing the requirement and an explanation of the manner in 1-22 which further study of the feasibility of the requirement will be 1-23 done. Not later than December 1, 1998, the commissioner shall file 1-24 with the legislature a final report on the feasibility of the 1-25 requirement that includes an assessment of the approximate annual 1-26 cost of implementing the requirement. This subsection expires 1-27 January 1, 1999. 1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-34 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-35 * * * * *