Bill Text: TX HB3155 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the expansion of the state virtual school network.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-19 - Referred to Public Education [HB3155 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3155-Introduced.html
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By: Harper-Brown | H.B. No. 3155 |
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relating to the expansion of 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 eligible to enroll [ |
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school in this state in the preceding school year; or | ||
(2) has been placed in substitute care in this state, | ||
regardless of whether the student was eligible to enroll [ |
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in a public school in this state in the preceding school year. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 30A, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 30A.008 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 30A.008. STATEWIDE POLICY ON ELECTRONIC COURSES. The | ||
commissioner shall adopt and implement a plan that promotes and | ||
provides incentives for the expansion of the state virtual school | ||
network. The plan must provide for: | ||
(1) an increase in the number of provider school | ||
districts or schools; | ||
(2) an increase in the number and types of courses that | ||
are offered through the state virtual school network; and | ||
(3) increased availability and access to the state | ||
virtual school network for students across this state. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 30A.101(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district or an open-enrollment charter school | ||
campus is eligible to act as a provider school district or school | ||
under this chapter only if the district or campus is rated | ||
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SECTION 4. Section 30A.107(c), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(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 5. Section 30A.155, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection (b-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
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provided through the state virtual school network to a student who | ||
resides in this state and is not enrolled in a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school as a full-time student. | ||
(b-1) A school district shall charge a fee for enrollment in | ||
an electronic course provided through the state virtual school | ||
network to a student who does not reside in the district and is not | ||
enrolled in a school district or open-enrollment charter school as | ||
a full-time student. | ||
(c) The amount of a fee charged a student under Subsection | ||
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the student enrolls through the state virtual school network may | ||
not exceed the lesser of: | ||
(1) the cost of providing the course; or | ||
(2) $400. | ||
SECTION 6. Section 30A.101(b), Education Code, as amended | ||
by Chapters 895 (H.B. 3) and 1328 (H.B. 3646), Acts of the 81st | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 8. 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. |