Bill Text: TX HB1993 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authorization of independent school districts to use electronic means to notify parents of a student's academic performance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-28 - Effective immediately [HB1993 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1993-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1993 |
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relating to the authorization of independent school districts to | ||
use electronic means to notify parents of a student's academic | ||
performance. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.022, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) A district that uses an electronic platform for | ||
communicating student grade and performance information to parents | ||
may permit a parent to sign a notice required under Subsections | ||
(a)(2) and (a)(3) electronically, so long as the district retains a | ||
record verifying the parent's acknowledgment of the required | ||
notice. A district that accepts electronic signatures under this | ||
subsection must offer parents the option to provide a handwritten | ||
signature as provided under Subsection (b). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all 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, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1993 was passed by the House on April | ||
23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1993 on May 18, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 0, | ||
1 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1993 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 13, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |