Bill Text: TX SB1263 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to allowing parents to petition for repurposing, alternative management, or closure of certain public school campuses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-14 - Left pending in committee [SB1263 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1263-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to allowing parents to petition for repurposing, alternative management, or closure of certain public school campuses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-14 - Left pending in committee [SB1263 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1263-Introduced.html
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By: Taylor, Patrick | S.B. No. 1263 |
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relating to allowing parents to petition for repurposing, | ||
alternative management, or closure of certain public school | ||
campuses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.107(e-2), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(e-2) For purposes of this subsection, "parent" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 12.051. Notwithstanding any other | ||
provision of this chapter, if [ |
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in the time and manner specified by commissioner rule, a written | ||
petition signed by the parents of a majority of the students | ||
enrolled at a campus that is assigned an unacceptable performance | ||
rating under Section 39.054 for two consecutive school years [ |
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Subsection (e)(1), (2), or (3) that the parents request the | ||
commissioner to order, the commissioner shall, except as otherwise | ||
authorized by this subsection, order the specific action requested. | ||
The commissioner shall verify that a petition received under this | ||
subsection contains the required number of signatures. If the | ||
board of trustees of the school district in which the campus is | ||
located presents to the commissioner, in the time and manner | ||
specified by commissioner rule, a written request that the | ||
commissioner order specific action authorized under Subsection (e) | ||
other than the specific action requested in the parents' petition | ||
and a written explanation of the basis for the board's request, the | ||
commissioner may order the action requested by the board of | ||
trustees. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
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, 2013. |