Bill Text: TX HB963 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the availability of school district trustee information on the Internet and a review of the essential knowledge and skills of certain curricula.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB963 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB963-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 963 |
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relating to the availability of school district trustee information | ||
on the Internet and a review of the essential knowledge and skills | ||
of certain curricula. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 11.1518 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 11.1518. TRUSTEE INFORMATION POSTED ON WEBSITE. (a) | ||
Each school district that maintains an Internet website shall post | ||
on the website the name, e-mail address, and term of office, | ||
including the date the term began and the date the term expires, of | ||
each member of the district's board of trustees. | ||
(b) If a school district does not maintain an Internet | ||
website, the district shall submit the information required by | ||
Subsection (a) to the agency. On receipt of the district's | ||
information, the agency shall post the information on the agency's | ||
Internet website. | ||
(c) Each time there is a change in the membership of a school | ||
district's board of trustees, the district shall update the | ||
information required under Subsection (a) and, as applicable: | ||
(1) post the updated information on the district's | ||
Internet website; or | ||
(2) submit the updated information to the agency for | ||
posting on the agency's Internet website in accordance with | ||
Subsection (b). | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2020, the State Board of | ||
Education shall: | ||
(1) conduct a review of the essential knowledge and | ||
skills of the career and technology and technology applications | ||
curricula; and | ||
(2) amend the board's rules in the Texas | ||
Administrative Code to consolidate the technology applications | ||
courses for grades 9 through 12 in 19 T.A.C. Chapter 126, Subchapter | ||
C, with the career and technical education courses in 19 T.A.C. | ||
Chapter 130, and eliminate duplicative courses while ensuring | ||
certifications are aligned with the rigor of each individual | ||
course. | ||
SECTION 3. The State Board of Education is required to | ||
implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature | ||
appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the | ||
legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, the State Board of Education may, but is not required to, | ||
implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations | ||
available for that purpose. | ||
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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 963 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 3, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 963 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 122, Nays 18, | ||
1 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 963 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 19, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |