By Siebert, et al. H.B. No. 907
76R12460 CAS-F
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.