H.B. No. 963
AN ACT
relating to the availability of school district trustee information
on the Internet and a review of the essential knowledge and skills
of certain curricula.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 11.1518 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.1518. TRUSTEE INFORMATION POSTED ON WEBSITE. (a)
Each school district that maintains an Internet website shall post
on the website the name, e-mail address, and term of office,
including the date the term began and the date the term expires, of
each member of the district's board of trustees.
(b) If a school district does not maintain an Internet
website, the district shall submit the information required by
Subsection (a) to the agency. On receipt of the district's
information, the agency shall post the information on the agency's
Internet website.
(c) Each time there is a change in the membership of a school
district's board of trustees, the district shall update the
information required under Subsection (a) and, as applicable:
(1) post the updated information on the district's
Internet website; or
(2) submit the updated information to the agency for
posting on the agency's Internet website in accordance with
Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2020, the State Board of
Education shall:
(1) conduct a review of the essential knowledge and
skills of the career and technology and technology applications
curricula; and
(2) amend the board's rules in the Texas
Administrative Code to consolidate the technology applications
courses for grades 9 through 12 in 19 T.A.C. Chapter 126, Subchapter
C, with the career and technical education courses in 19 T.A.C.
Chapter 130, and eliminate duplicative courses while ensuring
certifications are aligned with the rigor of each individual
course.
SECTION 3. The State Board of Education is required to
implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature
appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the
legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that
purpose, the State Board of Education may, but is not required to,
implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations
available for that purpose.
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, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 963 was passed by the House on May 2,
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 3, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 963 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 122, Nays 18,
1 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 963 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 19, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor