Bill Text: TX HB862 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to placing the State Board of Education and the State Board for Educator Certification under periodic review by the Sunset Advisory Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-29 - Left pending in committee [HB862 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB862-Introduced.html
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By: Patrick | H.B. No. 862 |
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relating to placing the State Board of Education and the State Board | ||
for Educator Certification under periodic review by the Sunset | ||
Advisory Commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 7, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 7.1011 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 7.1011. SUNSET PROVISION. The State Board of | ||
Education is subject to review under Chapter 325, Government Code | ||
(Texas Sunset Act), but is not abolished under that chapter. The | ||
board shall be reviewed during the periods in which state agencies | ||
scheduled to be abolished in 2013 and every 12th year after that | ||
year are reviewed. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 21.0331 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.0331. SUNSET PROVISION. The board is subject to | ||
review under Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). | ||
Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the | ||
board is abolished September 1, 2013. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2011. |