Bill Text: TX HB1839 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 1839 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to excluding a provider of recreational classes that do not lead to an educational credential from regulation as a career school or college.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1839 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1839-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 1839




	AN ACT
	relating to excluding a provider of recreational classes that do
	not lead to an educational credential from regulation as a career
	school or college.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 132, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 132.005 to read as follows:
	Sec. 132.005. APPLICABILITY. This chapter does not apply
	to a school or training program that offers only avocational or
	recreational instruction or teacher instruction for the following
	subjects:
	(1) dance;
	(2) music;
	(3) martial arts;
	(4) yoga;
	(5) physical fitness;
	(6) horseback riding;
	(7) riflery or other weapon use;
	(8) sewing, knitting, or other needlecrafts; or
	(9) sports.
	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, 2011.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1839 was passed by the House on May 5,
	2011, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1839 was passed by the Senate on May
	23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor