By Madden H.B. No. 531 76R417 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to part-time enrollment of home-school students in public 1-3 schools. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 25, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 25.005 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 25.005. PART-TIME ENROLLMENT OF HOME-SCHOOL STUDENT. 1-8 (a) A home-schooled child entitled to attend public school in a 1-9 school district under Section 25.001 may enroll in public school in 1-10 the district as a part-time student if the district and the child's 1-11 parent or guardian agree in writing to the child's enrollment. 1-12 (b) A part-time student may participate in an academic class 1-13 on the same basis as a regularly enrolled student. 1-14 (c) A school district may not charge a part-time student 1-15 tuition but shall charge the student all applicable fees charged a 1-16 regularly enrolled student. 1-17 (d) A school district that enrolls a part-time student under 1-18 this section is entitled to receive a portion of the total amount 1-19 of state funding the district receives per regularly enrolled 1-20 student. 1-21 (e) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules as 1-22 necessary to implement this section, including rules that provide 1-23 for state funding proportionate to a student's participation in the 1-24 public school program. 2-1 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 2-2 school year. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.