| 1 | 1 | | 85R12215 PAM-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Leach H.B. No. 3365 |
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| 4 | 4 | | |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to criteria for admission of students into public schools. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 25.001(b), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 10 | 10 | | read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (b) The board of trustees of a school district or its |
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| 12 | 12 | | designee shall admit into the public schools of the district free of |
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| 13 | 13 | | tuition a person who is over five and younger than 21 years of age on |
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| 14 | 14 | | the first day of September of the school year in which admission is |
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| 15 | 15 | | sought, and may admit a person who is at least 21 years of age and |
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| 16 | 16 | | under 26 years of age for the purpose of completing the requirements |
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| 17 | 17 | | for a high school diploma, if: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (1) the person and either parent of the person reside |
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| 19 | 19 | | in the school district; |
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| 20 | 20 | | (2) the person does not reside in the school district |
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| 21 | 21 | | but a parent of the person resides in the school district and that |
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| 22 | 22 | | parent is a joint managing conservator or the sole managing |
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| 23 | 23 | | conservator or possessory conservator of the person; |
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| 24 | 24 | | (3) the person and the person's guardian or other |
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| 25 | 25 | | person having lawful control of the person under a court order |
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| 26 | 26 | | reside within the school district; |
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| 27 | 27 | | (4) the person has established a separate residence |
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| 28 | 28 | | under Subsection (d); |
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| 29 | 29 | | (5) the person is homeless, as defined by 42 U.S.C. |
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| 30 | 30 | | Section 11302, regardless of the residence of the person, of either |
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| 31 | 31 | | parent of the person, or of the person's guardian or other person |
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| 32 | 32 | | having lawful control of the person; |
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| 33 | 33 | | (6) the person is a foreign exchange student placed |
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| 34 | 34 | | with a host family that resides in the school district by a |
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| 35 | 35 | | nationally recognized foreign exchange program, unless the school |
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| 36 | 36 | | district has applied for and been granted a waiver by the |
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| 37 | 37 | | commissioner under Subsection (e); |
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| 38 | 38 | | (7) the person resides at a residential facility |
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| 39 | 39 | | located in the district; |
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| 40 | 40 | | (8) the person resides in the school district and is 18 |
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| 41 | 41 | | years of age or older or the person's disabilities of minority have |
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| 42 | 42 | | been removed; [or] |
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| 43 | 43 | | (9) the person does not reside in the school district |
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| 44 | 44 | | but the grandparent of the person: |
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| 45 | 45 | | (A) resides in the school district; and |
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| 46 | 46 | | (B) provides a substantial amount of |
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| 47 | 47 | | after-school care for the person as determined by the board; or |
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| 48 | 48 | | (10) the person and either parent of the person reside |
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| 49 | 49 | | in a residence that is located on a parcel of property any part of |
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| 50 | 50 | | which is located in the school district. |
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| 51 | 51 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 52 | 52 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 53 | 53 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 54 | 54 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 55 | 55 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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