Bill Text: TX HB203 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public schools to offer a virtual learning option during a disaster.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-27 - Referred to Public Education [HB203 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB203-Introduced.html
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| By: Dominguez | H.B. No. 203 | |
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| relating to requiring public schools to offer a virtual learning | ||
| option during a disaster. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.9092 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.9092. VIRTUAL LEARNING OPTION DURING DISASTER. (a) | ||
| During any school year in which a school district's or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school's operations, including in-person | ||
| attendance, are disrupted due to a disaster declared by the | ||
| president of the United States under the Robert T. Stafford | ||
| Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. Section | ||
| 5121 et seq.) or by the governor under Chapter 418, Government Code, | ||
| the district or school shall offer to the district's or school's | ||
| students a virtual learning option through which students may | ||
| attend school virtually. | ||
| (b) A student enrolled in a virtual learning option under | ||
| this section 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 learning | ||
| option. | ||
| (c) Chapter 30A does not apply to a virtual course offered | ||
| under a virtual learning option under this section. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
