By Dutton H.B. No. 2133
76R6233 KKA-D
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.