83R31874 CAS-D
By: Patrick S.C.R. No. 47
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Senate Bill No. 2 has been adopted by the senate and
the house of representatives and is being prepared for enrollment;
and
WHEREAS, The bill contains technical errors that should be
corrected; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas, That
the enrolling clerk of the senate be instructed to correct Senate
Bill No. 2 as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the
bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 33.088 to read as follows:
Sec. 33.088. PARTICIPATION IN LEAGUE CONTESTS BY SPECIALTY
HIGH SCHOOL. (a) In this section:
(1) "Division" includes academics, athletics, or
music divisions of league contests.
(2) "Specialty high school" means the high school of
an open-enrollment charter school that:
(A) enrolls students without regard to the
attendance zones of the school district in which the high school is
located; and
(B) is determined by the University
Interscholastic League to specialize in a division of league
contests.
(3) "League" means the University Interscholastic
League.
(b) To ensure fair competition, the league shall adopt rules
governing participation in league contests by students attending a
specialty high school.
(c) The league rules adopted under Subsection (b) must
require that, for any division of league contests that a specialty
high school emphasizes, the school will be assigned to the
conference with the largest student enrollment, except that the
rules may provide for reasonable exceptions from that requirement
based on travel, availability of participant schools, or other
criteria.
(d) League rules adopted under Subsection (b) must apply
beginning with the 2013-2014 school year. This subsection expires
August 31, 2014.
(2) Strike SECTION 48 of the bill (page 46, lines 16-23),
repealing provisions of the Education Code, and substitute the
following appropriately numbered SECTION:
SECTION ____. The following provisions of the Education
Code are repealed:
(1) Subsection (b), Section 12.1055;
(2) Subsection (b), Section 12.113; and
(3) Subsection (b), Section 12.1161.