| 1 | 1 | | By: Aycock (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1550 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2011; |
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| 3 | 3 | | April 26, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | 4 | | Education; May 5, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | 5 | | Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 5, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to participation in state travel service contracts by |
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| 11 | 11 | | open-enrollment charter schools. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 2171.055(f), Government Code, is amended |
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| 14 | 14 | | to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (f) An officer or employee of a public junior college, as |
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| 16 | 16 | | defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, of an open-enrollment |
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| 17 | 17 | | charter school established under Subchapter D, Chapter 12, |
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| 18 | 18 | | Education Code, or of a school district who is engaged in official |
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| 19 | 19 | | business may participate in the commission's contract for travel |
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| 20 | 20 | | services. The commission may charge a participating public junior |
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| 21 | 21 | | college, open-enrollment charter school, or school district a fee |
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| 22 | 22 | | not to exceed the costs incurred by the commission in providing |
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| 23 | 23 | | services under this subsection. The commission shall periodically |
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| 24 | 24 | | review fees and shall adjust them as needed to ensure recovery of |
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| 25 | 25 | | costs incurred in providing services to public junior colleges, |
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| 26 | 26 | | open-enrollment charter schools, and school districts under this |
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| 27 | 27 | | subsection. The commission shall deposit the fees collected under |
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| 28 | 28 | | this subsection to the credit of the public education travel |
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| 29 | 29 | | account. The public education travel account is an account in the |
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| 30 | 30 | | general revenue fund that may be appropriated only for the purposes |
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| 31 | 31 | | of this chapter. The commission shall adopt rules and make or amend |
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| 32 | 32 | | contracts as necessary to administer this subsection. |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 34 | 34 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 35 | 35 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 36 | 36 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 37 | 37 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 38 | 38 | | * * * * * |
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