By Lengefeld                                          H.B. No. 1850
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to eligibility for certain programs or services provided
 1-3     by the Windham School District.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 19.005(a), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  Any [Only a] person confined or imprisoned in the
 1-8     department [who is not a high school graduate] is eligible for
 1-9     programs or services under this chapter paid for with money from
1-10     the foundation school fund.
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.