Bill Text: TX SB1453 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the use of calculator applications in place of graphing calculators in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1453 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1453-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Taylor | S.B. No. 1453 | |
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| relating to the use of calculator applications in place of graphing | ||
| calculators in public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 25.904 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.904. USE OF CALCULATOR APPLICATION IN PLACE OF | ||
| GRAPHING CALCULATOR. (a) A school district shall permit a student | ||
| enrolled in a course that requires the student to use a graphing | ||
| calculator to use a calculator application on a computing device, | ||
| including a personal, laptop, or tablet computer, that provides the | ||
| same functionality, unless the district makes available to the | ||
| student a graphing calculator at no cost to the student. | ||
| (b) A school district may adopt policies related to student | ||
| use of a computing device under this section. | ||
| (c) To the extent this section conflicts with Section | ||
| 37.082, this section prevails. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Education Agency 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 Texas Education Agency may, but is not required to, | ||
| implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations | ||
| available for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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. | ||
