By: Martinez (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) H.B. No. 109
(In the Senate - Received from the House March 21, 2019;
March 27, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 10, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 10, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operation of open-enrollment charter schools on
Memorial Day.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 25.081(f), Education Code, as added by
Chapter 1144 (H.B. 441), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows:
(f) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may
not provide student instruction on Memorial Day. If a school
district or open-enrollment charter school would be required to
provide student instruction on Memorial Day to compensate for
minutes of instruction lost because of school closures caused by
disaster, flood, extreme weather conditions, fuel curtailment, or
another calamity, the commissioner shall approve the instruction of
students for fewer than the number of minutes required under
Subsection (a).
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
school year.
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, 2019.
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