| 1 | | - | By: Martinez (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 441 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; |
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| 3 | | - | May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | | - | Education; May 22, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | | - | Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 22, 2017, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | H.B. No. 441 |
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| 10 | 4 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 5 | | relating to operation of public schools on Memorial Day. |
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| 12 | 6 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 7 | | SECTION 1. Section 25.081, Education Code, is amended by |
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| 14 | 8 | | adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 9 | | (f) A school district may not provide student instruction on |
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| 16 | 10 | | Memorial Day. If a school district would be required to provide |
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| 17 | 11 | | student instruction on Memorial Day to compensate for minutes of |
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| 18 | 12 | | instruction lost because of school closures caused by disaster, |
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| 19 | 13 | | flood, extreme weather conditions, fuel curtailment, or another |
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| 20 | 14 | | calamity, the commissioner shall approve the instruction of |
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| 21 | 15 | | students for fewer than the number of minutes required under |
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| 22 | 16 | | Subsection (a). |
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| 23 | 17 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 |
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| 24 | 18 | | school year. |
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| 25 | 19 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 26 | 20 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 27 | 21 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 28 | 22 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 29 | 23 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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| 30 | | - | * * * * * |
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| 24 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 25 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 26 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 441 was passed by the House on May 4, |
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| 27 | + | 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not |
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| 28 | + | voting. |
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| 29 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 30 | + | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 31 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 441 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 32 | + | 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 33 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 34 | + | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 35 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 36 | + | Date |
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| 37 | + | _____________________ |
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| 38 | + | Governor |
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