Bill Text: TX HB109 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the operation of open-enrollment charter schools on Memorial Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB109 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB109-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 109 | ||
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| 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 12A.004(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A local innovation plan may not provide for the | ||
| exemption of a district designated as a district of innovation from | ||
| the following provisions of this title: | ||
| (1) a state or federal requirement applicable to an | ||
| open-enrollment charter school operating under Subchapter D, | ||
| Chapter 12, except that a district may be exempt from Section | ||
| 25.081(f), as added by Chapter 1144 (H.B. 441), Acts of the 85th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2017; | ||
| (2) Subchapters A, C, D, and E, Chapter 11, except that | ||
| a district may be exempt from Sections 11.1511(b)(5) and (14) and | ||
| Section 11.162; | ||
| (3) state curriculum and graduation requirements | ||
| adopted under Chapter 28; and | ||
| (4) academic and financial accountability and | ||
| sanctions under Chapters 39 and 39A. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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. 109 was passed by the House on March | ||
| 20, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; | ||
| that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. | ||
| 109 on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 6, 2 | ||
| present, not voting; and that the House adopted H.C.R. No. 185 | ||
| authorizing certain corrections in H.B. No. 109 on May 24, 2019, by | ||
| the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 1, 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 109 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0; and that the Senate adopted H.C.R. No. 185 authorizing certain | ||
| corrections in H.B. No. 109 on May 26, 2019, by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
