Bill Text: TX HB1462 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a local remote learning program offered by certain school districts or open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Public Education [HB1462 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1462-Introduced.html
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By: Guillen | H.B. No. 1462 |
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relating to a local remote learning program offered by certain | ||
school districts or open-enrollment charter schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 29.9091, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (n) and (s) and adding Subsection (n-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(n) Except as otherwise provided under Subsection (e)(3) or | ||
(n-1), a student enrolled in a virtual course offered under a local | ||
remote learning program shall be counted toward the school | ||
district's or open-enrollment charter school's average daily | ||
attendance in the same manner as other district or school students. | ||
The commissioner shall adopt rules providing for a method of taking | ||
attendance, once each school day, for students enrolled in a | ||
virtual course offered under a local remote learning program. | ||
(n-1) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
that operates a local remote learning program is entitled to | ||
funding under Chapters 46 and 48 or Section 12.106 for a student's | ||
enrollment in a virtual course offered under the program only if the | ||
student successfully completes the course. | ||
(s) This section expires September 1, 2026 [ |
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SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
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, 2023. |