Bill Text: TX SB1404 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to requiring school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to report certain information regarding expanded learning opportunities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [SB1404 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1404-Enrolled.html
 
 
  S.B. No. 1404
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring school districts and open-enrollment charter
  schools to report certain information regarding expanded learning
  opportunities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 42.006, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (a-2) to read as follows:
         (a-2)  The commissioner by rule shall require each school
  district and open-enrollment charter school to report through the
  Public Education Information Management System information for
  each campus of the district or school regarding:
               (1)  the availability of expanded learning
  opportunities as described by Section 33.252; and
               (2)  the number of students participating in each of
  the categories of expanded learning opportunities listed under
  Section 33.252(b).
         SECTION 2.  (a)  The Sunset Advisory Commission, as part of
  the review of the Expanded Learning Opportunities Council under
  Chapter 325, Government Code, shall review the information
  submitted under Section 42.006(a-2), Education Code, as added by
  this Act, to determine the availability of expanded learning
  opportunities and the role of regional education service centers in
  providing those opportunities throughout the state.
         (b)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sunset
  Advisory Commission shall review regional education service
  centers during the period in which state agencies scheduled to be
  reviewed or abolished in 2023 are reviewed, and unless continued in
  existence as provided by Chapter 325, Government Code, the centers
  are abolished and the law governing the centers and the law
  administered by the centers expire September 1, 2023.
         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, 2017.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1404 passed the Senate on
  May 3, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3; and that the
  Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 2017, by the
  following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1404 passed the House, with
  amendment, on May 23, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 126,
  Nays 17, two present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor
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