By Grusendorf                                         H.B. No. 1961
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to fines collected for thwarting the compulsory school
 1-3     attendance law.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 25.093(f), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (f)  A fine collected under this section shall be deposited
 1-8     as follows:
 1-9                 (1)  one-half shall be deposited to the credit of the
1-10     operating fund of the school district in which the child attends
1-11     school or  of  the juvenile justice alternative education program
1-12     that the child has been ordered to attend, as applicable; and
1-13                 (2)  one-half shall be deposited to the credit of:
1-14                       (A)  the general fund of the county, if the
1-15     complaint is filed in the county court or justice court; or
1-16                       (B)  the general fund of the municipality, if the
1-17     complaint is filed in municipal court.
1-18           SECTION 2.  Section 25.093(f), Education Code, as amended by
1-19     this Act, applies only to a fine collected under Section 25.093,
1-20     Education Code, on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-21           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.