By Seaman                                              H.B. No. 335
         76R1619 JSA-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the prekindergarten program operated by the Texas A&M
 1-3     University--Corpus Christi Early Childhood Center.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 87, Education Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 87.403 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 87.403.  EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER.  (a)  Under a contract
 1-8     with a school district located in the same region as the
 1-9     university, Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi may operate on
1-10     behalf of the school district, in connection with the instructional
1-11     and research programs of the university, a prekindergarten program
1-12     established under Section 29.153.   The prekindergarten program is
1-13     considered to be an educational program of the school district in
1-14     the same manner as any other prekindergarten program established
1-15     under Section 29.153.
1-16           (b)  Notwithstanding Section 29.153(b), any child who meets
1-17     the age requirements of Section 29.153 is eligible for enrollment
1-18     in the prekindergarten program.
1-19           (c)  Notwithstanding Section 29.153(c), the university may
1-20     operate the prekindergarten on a full-day basis with the approval
1-21     of the school district.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.