Bill Text: TX HB1850 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility for full-time enrollment of private school students and home-schooled students in the state virtual school network.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-04 - Referred to Public Education [HB1850 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1850-Introduced.html
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By: Dale | H.B. No. 1850 |
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relating to eligibility for full-time enrollment of private school | ||
students and home-schooled students in the state virtual school | ||
network. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 30A.002(b), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) A student is eligible to enroll full-time in courses | ||
provided through the state virtual school network only if the | ||
student: | ||
(1) was enrolled in a public or private school in this | ||
state in the preceding school year; [ |
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(2) was a home-schooled student in this state in the | ||
preceding school year; or | ||
(3) has been placed in substitute care in this state, | ||
regardless of whether the student was enrolled in a public or | ||
private school in this state or was a home-schooled student in this | ||
state in the preceding school year. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 30A.007(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
shall adopt a policy that provides eligible [ |
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students with the opportunity to enroll in electronic courses | ||
provided through the state virtual school network. The policy must | ||
be consistent with the requirements imposed by Section 26.0031. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 30A.107(b) and (c), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) A student who is enrolled in a school district, [ |
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open-enrollment charter school, or private school in this state as | ||
a full-time student or who is a home-schooled student in this state | ||
may take one or more electronic courses through the state virtual | ||
school network. | ||
(c) A student who resides in this state but who is not | ||
enrolled in a school district or open-enrollment charter school in | ||
this state as a full-time student may, subject to Section 30A.155, | ||
enroll in electronic courses through the state virtual school | ||
network. A student to whom this subsection applies: | ||
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through the network through the school district or open-enrollment | ||
charter school attendance zone in which the student resides; | ||
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offered by a school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
other than an electronic course provided through the network; and | ||
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activities, or services available to a student enrolled in a public | ||
school, other than the right to receive the appropriate unit of | ||
credit for completing an electronic course. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 30A.155(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
charge a fee for enrollment in an electronic course provided | ||
through the state virtual school network to a student who resides in | ||
this state and: | ||
(1) is enrolled in a school district, [ |
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open-enrollment charter school, or private school as a full-time | ||
student or is a home-schooled student; and | ||
(2) is enrolled in a course load greater than that | ||
normally taken by students in the equivalent grade level in other | ||
school districts, [ |
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schools. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 6. 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, 2013. |