1-1 By: Siebert, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 907
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1999;
1-3 May 13, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to attendance in public schools of persons over 18 years
1-9 of age.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 25.085, Education Code, is amended by
1-12 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-13 (e) A person who voluntarily enrolls in school or
1-14 voluntarily attends school after the person's 18th birthday shall
1-15 attend school each school day for the entire period the program of
1-16 instruction is offered. A school district may revoke for the
1-17 remainder of the school year the enrollment of a person who has
1-18 more than five absences in a semester that are not excused under
1-19 Section 25.087. A person whose enrollment is revoked under this
1-20 subsection may be considered an unauthorized person on school
1-21 district grounds for purposes of Section 37.107.
1-22 SECTION 2. Section 25.087(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-23 read as follows:
1-24 (a) A person [child] required to attend school, including a
1-25 person required to attend school under Section 25.085(e), may be
1-26 excused for temporary absence resulting from any cause acceptable
1-27 to the teacher, principal, or superintendent of the school in which
1-28 the person [child] is enrolled.
1-29 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-30 school year.
1-31 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-37 passage, and it is so enacted.
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