By: Campbell S.B. No. 1711
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to rules which insure that local independent school
district selection of non-state adopted instructional materials to
be purchased with state funds, is as accountable and transparent as
the State Board of Education approval process for state-adopted
instruction materials.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 31.003, Education Code, is amended by
designating the current rule as Subsection (a) and adding
Subsections (b), (b-1), (b-2), (b-3), (b-4), (b-5), and (b-6)
to read as follows:
(a) The State Board of Education may adopt rules, consistent
with this chapter, for the adoption, requisition,
distribution, care, use, and disposal of instructional
materials.
(b) The state Board of Education may by rule set minimum
standards for local procedures selecting non-state adopted
instructional materials to be purchased with state funds only
in the areas of:
(1)public notice, access, and input;
(2) review by independent panel to determine coverage
of the essential knowledge and skills;
(3) prevention/correction of factual errors;
(4)coverage of essential knowledge and skills in the
student version as well as in the teacher version of
instructional materials, pursuant to TEC 31.023(a);
(5) compliance with the stated purpose of TEC
28.002(h); and
(6)safeguards against corruption.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected
to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III,
Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the
vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes
effect September 1, 2015.