By Siebert, et al.                                     H.B. No. 907
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to attendance in public schools of persons over 18 years
 1-3     of age.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 25.085, Education Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
 1-7           (e)  A person who voluntarily enrolls in school or
 1-8     voluntarily attends school after the person's 18th birthday shall
 1-9     attend school each school day for the entire period the program of
1-10     instruction is offered.  A school district may revoke for the
1-11     remainder of the school year the enrollment of a person who has
1-12     more than five absences in a semester that are not excused under
1-13     Section 25.087.  A person whose enrollment is revoked under this
1-14     subsection may be considered an unauthorized person on school
1-15     district grounds for purposes of Section 37.107.
1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 25.087(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-17     read as follows:
1-18           (a)  A person [child] required to attend school, including a
1-19     person required to attend school under Section 25.085(e), may be
1-20     excused for temporary absence resulting from any cause acceptable
1-21     to the teacher, principal, or superintendent of the school in which
1-22     the person [child] is enrolled.
1-23           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-24     school year.
 2-1           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-6     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-7     passage, and it is so enacted.