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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