By Solis of Cameron H.B. No. 1326
76R2534 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to notification concerning certain students who transfer
1-3 from one school district in this state to another.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 25, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 25.043 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 25.043. NOTIFICATION. (a) Not later than the 30th day
1-8 after the date a student transfers from one school district in this
1-9 state and enrolls in another district in this state, the district
1-10 in which the student enrolls shall notify the district from which
1-11 the student transferred of the enrollment.
1-12 (b) A school district is not required to provide notice
1-13 under Subsection (a) if the student's transfer is pursuant to an
1-14 agreement between the districts under this subchapter concerning
1-15 the transfer of students.
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 29.204, Education Code, is amended by
1-17 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-18 (c) Not later than the 30th day after the date a student
1-19 transfers from one school district and enrolls in another using a
1-20 public education grant, the district in which the student enrolls
1-21 shall notify the district from which the student transferred of
1-22 the enrollment.
1-23 SECTION 3. Sections 25.043 and 29.204(c), Education Code, as
1-24 added by this Act, take effect September 1, 1999, and apply only to
2-1 a student's enrollment in a school district on or after that date.
2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.