Bill Text: TX HB2526 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to criteria for admission of certain students into public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB2526 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2526-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2526 |
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relating to criteria for admission of certain students into public | ||
schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 25.001(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The board of trustees of a school district or its | ||
designee shall admit into the public schools of the district free of | ||
tuition a person who is over five and younger than 21 years of age on | ||
the first day of September of the school year in which admission is | ||
sought, and may admit a person who is at least 21 years of age and | ||
under 26 years of age for the purpose of completing the requirements | ||
for a high school diploma, if: | ||
(1) the person and either parent of the person reside | ||
in the school district; | ||
(2) the person does not reside in the school district | ||
but a parent of the person resides in the school district and that | ||
parent is a joint managing conservator or the sole managing | ||
conservator or possessory conservator of the person; | ||
(3) the person and the person's guardian or other | ||
person having lawful control of the person under a court order | ||
reside within the school district; | ||
(4) the person has established a separate residence | ||
under Subsection (d); | ||
(5) the person is homeless, as defined by 42 U.S.C. | ||
Section 11302, regardless of the residence of the person, of either | ||
parent of the person, or of the person's guardian or other person | ||
having lawful control of the person; | ||
(6) the person is a foreign exchange student placed | ||
with a host family that resides in the school district by a | ||
nationally recognized foreign exchange program, unless the school | ||
district has applied for and been granted a waiver by the | ||
commissioner under Subsection (e); | ||
(7) the person resides at a residential facility | ||
located in the district; | ||
(8) the person resides in the school district and is 18 | ||
years of age or older or the person's disabilities of minority have | ||
been removed; [ |
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(9) the person does not reside in the school district | ||
but the grandparent of the person: | ||
(A) resides in the school district; and | ||
(B) provides a substantial amount of | ||
after-school care for the person as determined by the board; or | ||
(10) the person and either parent of the person reside | ||
in a residence homestead, as defined by Section 11.13(j), Tax Code, | ||
that is located on a parcel of property any part of which is located | ||
in the school district. | ||
SECTION 2. 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. 2526 was passed by the House on May 7, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2526 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
_____________________ | ||
Governor |