By Zaffirini S.B. No. 30
77R71 BDH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to mandatory kindergarten attendance in public schools.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 25.085(b) and (c), Education Code, are
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) Unless specifically exempted by Section 25.086, a child
1-7 who is at least five [six] years of age on the first day of
1-8 September of the school year, or who is younger than five [six]
1-9 years of age and has previously been enrolled in kindergarten
1-10 [first grade], and who has not yet reached the child's 18th
1-11 birthday shall attend school.
1-12 (c) On enrollment in prekindergarten [or kindergarten], a
1-13 child shall attend school.
1-14 SECTION 2. Section 29.009, Education Code, is amended to read
1-15 as follows:
1-16 Sec. 29.009. PUBLIC NOTICE CONCERNING PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR
1-17 STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. Each school district shall develop a
1-18 system to notify the population in the district with children who
1-19 are at least three years of age but younger than five [six] years
1-20 of age and who are eligible for enrollment in a special education
1-21 program of the availability of the program.
1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately and applies
1-23 beginning with the 2001-2002 school year.