S.B. No. 1404
AN ACT
relating to requiring school districts and open-enrollment charter
schools to report certain information regarding expanded learning
opportunities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.006, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-2) to read as follows:
(a-2) The commissioner by rule shall require each school
district and open-enrollment charter school to report through the
Public Education Information Management System information for
each campus of the district or school regarding:
(1) the availability of expanded learning
opportunities as described by Section 33.252; and
(2) the number of students participating in each of
the categories of expanded learning opportunities listed under
Section 33.252(b).
SECTION 2. (a) The Sunset Advisory Commission, as part of
the review of the Expanded Learning Opportunities Council under
Chapter 325, Government Code, shall review the information
submitted under Section 42.006(a-2), Education Code, as added by
this Act, to determine the availability of expanded learning
opportunities and the role of regional education service centers in
providing those opportunities throughout the state.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sunset
Advisory Commission shall review regional education service
centers during the period in which state agencies scheduled to be
reviewed or abolished in 2023 are reviewed, and unless continued in
existence as provided by Chapter 325, Government Code, the centers
are abolished and the law governing the centers and the law
administered by the centers expire September 1, 2023.
SECTION 3. 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.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1404 passed the Senate on
May 3, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3; and that the
Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 2017, by the
following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1404 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 23, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 126,
Nays 17, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor