Bill Text: TX HB2210 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the consideration for public school accountability purposes of certain students who reside in a state hospital and receive educational services provided by a school district.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2210 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2210-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the consideration for public school accountability purposes of certain students who reside in a state hospital and receive educational services provided by a school district.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2210 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2210-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bell of Kaufman, et al. | H.B. No. 2210 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Powell) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2019; | ||
May 10, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 17, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 17, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the consideration for public school accountability | ||
purposes of certain students receiving residential services in | ||
state hospitals. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.0552 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.0552. CERTAIN STUDENTS RECEIVING RESIDENTIAL | ||
SERVICES IN STATE HOSPITALS NOT CONSIDERED FOR ACCOUNTABILITY | ||
PURPOSES. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, in | ||
determining the performance of a school district or campus under | ||
this chapter, a student receiving residential services in a state | ||
hospital is not considered a student of the school district or | ||
campus in which the state hospital is physically located. | ||
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, 2019. | ||
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