By: Lucio, Madla S.B. No. 40 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to a study by the commissioner of education concerning the 1-2 first instructional day of the school year. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 25.0811 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 25.0811. STUDY CONCERNING FIRST INSTRUCTIONAL DAY. The 1-7 commissioner shall study the effects of a law prohibiting a school 1-8 district from beginning instruction for students for a school year 1-9 before September 1. The commissioner shall include in the study 1-10 the effects such a law would have on students, parents, school 1-11 personnel, school districts, local economies, and the state 1-12 economy. The commissioner shall report the results of the study to 1-13 the legislature not later than January 31, 2001. This section 1-14 expires February 1, 2001. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.