By Dutton H.B. No. 2712
76R8813 BDH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the eligibility of certain persons to take a high
1-3 school equivalency examination.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 7.111(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The board shall provide for the administration of high
1-8 school equivalency examinations. A person who does not have a high
1-9 school diploma may take the examination in accordance with rules
1-10 adopted by the board if the person is over 17 years of age or:
1-11 (1) is 16 years of age or older; and
1-12 (2) a public agency providing social services to
1-13 [supervision of] the person [or having custody of the person under
1-14 a court order] recommends that the person take the examination.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-16 school year.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.