Bill Text: TX HB3771 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the adoption and permanent student ownership of low-cost mathematics and science instructional material.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-21 - Referred to Public Education [HB3771 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3771-Introduced.html

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83R12730 CAE-F
By: Coleman H.B. No. 3771

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the adoption and permanent student ownership of
low-cost mathematics and science instructional material.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 31.023, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The State Board of Education may adopt a list of
mathematics and science instructional material that may be offered
to school districts at a low cost. The board may adopt rules for the
review and adoption of instructional material under this
subsection. Sections 31.022, 31.0221, 31.026, and 31.027 do not
apply to instructional material adopted under this subsection.
SECTION 2. Section 31.102(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Section 31.104(i), each [Each]
instructional material purchased as provided by this chapter for a
school district or an open-enrollment charter school is the
property of the district or school.
SECTION 3. Section 31.104, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (i) to read as
follows:
(c) Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (g) and
(i), a student must return all instructional materials to the
teacher at the end of the school year or when the student withdraws
from school.
(i) At the end of the school year, instructional material
adopted by the State Board of Education under Section 31.023(c) and
purchased by a school district or open-enrollment charter school as
a low-cost mathematics or science instructional material becomes
the property of the student to whom it was distributed. A school
district or open-enrollment charter school may not charge a fee
under this subsection.
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, 2013.