Bill Text: TX SB1144 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to enrolling a public school student in a virtual education program as an alternative to expulsion.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-04 - Referred to Public Education [SB1144 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1144-Engrossed.html
| By: Hughes, West | S.B. No. 1144 | |
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| relating to enrolling a public school student in a virtual | ||
| education program as an alternative to expulsion. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.0071 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.0071. VIRTUAL EDUCATION AS ALTERNATIVE TO | ||
| EXPULSION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), before a | ||
| school district or open-enrollment charter school may expel a | ||
| student, the district or school shall consider as an alternative to | ||
| expulsion the appropriateness and feasibility of enrolling the | ||
| student in a full-time virtual education program through the state | ||
| virtual school network under Chapter 30A or another virtual | ||
| education program authorized by this code. | ||
| (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a student expelled | ||
| under Section 37.0081 or 37.007(a), (d), or (e). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
