By Dutton                                             H.B. No. 2133
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the provision of kindergarten and prekindergarten
 1-3     programs by school districts on a full-day basis.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 29.152, Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 29.152.  OPERATION OF KINDERGARTENS ON [HALF-DAY OR]
 1-8     FULL-DAY BASIS.  A public school kindergarten shall [may] be
 1-9     operated on a [half-day or a] full-day basis [at the option of the
1-10     board of trustees of the school district].
1-11           SECTION 2.  Section 29.153(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (c)  A prekindergarten class shall be operated on a full-day
1-14     [half-day] basis.  A district is not required to provide
1-15     transportation for a  prekindergarten class, but transportation, if
1-16     provided, is included for funding purposes as part of the regular
1-17     transportation system.
1-18           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-19     school year.
1-20           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.