By: Deuell S.B. No. 1725
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2013; March 25, 2013, read
first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 29, 2013,
reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 3; April 29, 2013, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1725 By: Van de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition of employment of a member or former member
of the State Board of Education by an open-enrollment charter
school; providing a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 7, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 7.115 to read as follows:
Sec. 7.115. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT. (a) A
member of the State Board of Education, or a former member of the
State Board of Education before the second anniversary of the date
on which the person last served as a member, may not be employed by
an open-enrollment charter school or any charitable organization
affiliated with an open-enrollment charter school if the charter
for the open-enrollment charter school was granted while the member
or former member served on the board unless the member or former
member abstained from the vote that granted the charter for the
open-enrollment charter school.
(b) A person who violates Subsection (a) commits an offense.
An offense under this subsection is a Class A misdemeanor.
SECTION 2. Section 7.115, Education Code, as added by this
Act, applies only to employment that begins on or after the
effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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