1-1     By:  Lucio, Madla                                       S.B. No. 40
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed November 9, 1998; January 26, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     March 29, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 29, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 40                      By:  Cain
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to a study by the commissioner of education concerning the
1-10     first instructional day of the school year.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is
1-13     amended by adding Section 25.0811 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 25.0811.  STUDY CONCERNING FIRST INSTRUCTIONAL DAY.  The
1-15     commissioner shall study the effects of a law prohibiting a school
1-16     district from beginning instruction for students for a school year
1-17     before September 1.  The commissioner shall include in the study
1-18     the effects such a law would have on students, parents, school
1-19     personnel, school districts, local economies, and the state
1-20     economy.  The commissioner shall report the results of the study to
1-21     the legislature not later than January 31, 2001.  This section
1-22     expires February 1, 2001.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
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