Bill Text: TX HB1802 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to providing public school students tutorials through the state virtual school network for end-of-course assessment instruments required for graduation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-12 - Referred to Public Education [HB1802 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1802-Introduced.html
  84R9000 PAM-D
 
  By: King of Hemphill H.B. No. 1802
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to providing public school students tutorials through the
  state virtual school network for end-of-course assessment
  instruments required for graduation.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 29.0845 to read as follows:
         Sec. 29.0845.  ONLINE TUTORIALS FOR END-OF-COURSE
  ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT PREPARATION. (a) The agency shall develop
  or contract for the development of interactive electronic tutorials
  that provide a comprehensive review for each end-of-course
  assessment instrument listed in Section 39.023(c).
         (b)  From funds appropriated for purposes of this section,
  the agency shall make the tutorials developed under Subsection (a)
  available to public school students through the state virtual
  school network under Chapter 30A.
         (b-1)  The agency shall provide the tutorials developed
  under Subsection (a) through the state virtual school network not
  later than the 2016-2017 school year.  This subsection expires
  September 1, 2017.
         (c)  A public school student may not be charged a fee for
  access to a tutorial provided through the state virtual school
  network under this section or materials used in conjunction with a
  tutorial.
         (d)  The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to
  administer this section.
         SECTION 2.  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, 2015.
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