Bill Text: TX HB2190 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to admission of certain students to an open-enrollment charter school.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2190 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2190-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 2190

AN ACT
relating to admission of certain students to an open-enrollment
charter school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.117, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) Notwithstanding Section 12.111(a)(13), an
open-enrollment charter school may admit a child of an employee of
the school as provided by this section regardless of whether the
child resides in the geographic area served by the school.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
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, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2190 was passed by the House on April
26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2190 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 11,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2190 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor