| 1 | | - | H.B. No. 189 |
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| 1 | + | By: Canales (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 189 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2021; |
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| 3 | + | May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | + | Education; May 14, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | + | Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 14, 2021, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 4 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 5 | 11 | | relating to a severance payment to a superintendent or |
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| 6 | 12 | | administrator serving as educational leader and chief executive |
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| 7 | 13 | | officer of an open-enrollment charter school. |
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| 8 | 14 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 15 | | SECTION 1. Section 12.104, Education Code, is amended by |
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| 10 | 16 | | adding Subsection (b-4) to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 17 | | (b-4) Section 11.201(c) applies to an open-enrollment |
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| 12 | 18 | | charter school as though the governing body of the school were the |
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| 13 | 19 | | board of trustees of a school district and to the superintendent or, |
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| 14 | 20 | | as applicable, the administrator serving as educational leader and |
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| 15 | 21 | | chief executive officer of the school as though that person were the |
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| 16 | 22 | | superintendent of a school district. |
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| 17 | 23 | | SECTION 2. Section 12.104(b-4), Education Code, as added by |
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| 18 | 24 | | this Act, applies only to a severance payment made by the governing |
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| 19 | 25 | | body of an open-enrollment charter school to a superintendent or |
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| 20 | 26 | | administrator serving as educational leader and chief executive |
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| 21 | 27 | | officer of the school under an agreement entered into on or after |
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| 22 | 28 | | the effective date of this Act. A severance payment made by the |
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| 23 | 29 | | governing body of an open-enrollment charter school to a |
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| 24 | 30 | | superintendent or administrator serving as educational leader and |
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| 25 | 31 | | chief executive officer of the school under an agreement entered |
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| 26 | 32 | | into before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in |
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| 27 | 33 | | effect at the time the agreement was made, and that law is continued |
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| 28 | 34 | | in effect for that purpose. |
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| 29 | 35 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 30 | 36 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 31 | 37 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 32 | 38 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 33 | 39 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |
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| 34 | | - | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 35 | | - | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 36 | | - | I certify that H.B. No. 189 was passed by the House on May 8, |
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| 37 | | - | 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 7, 2 present, not |
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| 38 | | - | voting. |
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| 39 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 40 | | - | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 41 | | - | I certify that H.B. No. 189 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 42 | | - | 19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 43 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 44 | | - | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 45 | | - | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 46 | | - | Date |
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| 47 | | - | _____________________ |
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| 48 | | - | Governor |
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| 40 | + | * * * * * |
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