85R4234 MM-F
By: Bohac H.B. No. 895
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the removal of restrictions on funding and payment of
costs for certain full-time online educational programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 26.0031(c-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c-1) A school district or open-enrollment charter school
may decline to pay the cost for a student of more than three
yearlong electronic courses, or the equivalent, during any school
year. This subsection does not:
(1) limit the ability of the student to enroll in
additional electronic courses at the student's cost; or
(2) apply to a student enrolled in a full-time online
program [that was operating on January 1, 2013].
SECTION 2. Section 30A.153(a-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a), a school district or
open-enrollment charter school is limited to the funding described
by that subsection for a student's enrollment in not more than three
electronic courses during any school year, unless the student is
enrolled in a full-time online program [that was operating on
January 1, 2013].
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply to
electronic courses taken through the state virtual school network
beginning with the 2017-2018 school year.
SECTION 4. 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, 2017.