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1-H.B. No. 109
1+By: Martinez (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) H.B. No. 109
2+ (In the Senate - Received from the House March 21, 2019;
3+ March 27, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
4+ Education; May 10, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
5+ Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 10, 2019, sent to printer.)
6+Click here to see the committee vote
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9+ A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
410 AN ACT
511 relating to the operation of open-enrollment charter schools on
612 Memorial Day.
713 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8- SECTION 1. Section 12A.004(a), Education Code, is amended
9- to read as follows:
10- (a) A local innovation plan may not provide for the
11- exemption of a district designated as a district of innovation from
12- the following provisions of this title:
13- (1) a state or federal requirement applicable to an
14- open-enrollment charter school operating under Subchapter D,
15- Chapter 12, except that a district may be exempt from Section
16- 25.081(f), as added by Chapter 1144 (H.B. 441), Acts of the 85th
17- Legislature, Regular Session, 2017;
18- (2) Subchapters A, C, D, and E, Chapter 11, except that
19- a district may be exempt from Sections 11.1511(b)(5) and (14) and
20- Section 11.162;
21- (3) state curriculum and graduation requirements
22- adopted under Chapter 28; and
23- (4) academic and financial accountability and
24- sanctions under Chapters 39 and 39A.
25- SECTION 2. Section 25.081(f), Education Code, as added by
14+ SECTION 1. Section 25.081(f), Education Code, as added by
2615 Chapter 1144 (H.B. 441), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular
2716 Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows:
2817 (f) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may
2918 not provide student instruction on Memorial Day. If a school
3019 district or open-enrollment charter school would be required to
3120 provide student instruction on Memorial Day to compensate for
3221 minutes of instruction lost because of school closures caused by
3322 disaster, flood, extreme weather conditions, fuel curtailment, or
3423 another calamity, the commissioner shall approve the instruction of
3524 students for fewer than the number of minutes required under
3625 Subsection (a).
37- SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
26+ SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
3827 school year.
39- SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
28+ SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
4029 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
4130 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
4231 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
4332 Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
44- ______________________________ ______________________________
45- President of the Senate Speaker of the House
46- I certify that H.B. No. 109 was passed by the House on March
47- 20, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 1 present, not
48- voting;
49- that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No.
50- 109 on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 6, 2
51- present, not voting; and that the House adopted H.C.R. No. 185
52- authorizing certain corrections in H.B. No. 109 on May 24, 2019, by
53- the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 1, 2 present, not voting.
54- ______________________________
55- Chief Clerk of the House
56- I certify that H.B. No. 109 was passed by the Senate, with
57- amendments, on May 15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
58- 0; and that the Senate adopted H.C.R. No. 185 authorizing certain
59- corrections in H.B. No. 109 on May 26, 2019, by the following vote:
60- Yeas 31, Nays 0.
61- ______________________________
62- Secretary of the Senate
63- APPROVED: __________________
64- Date
65- __________________
66- Governor
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