Bill Text: TX HB222 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to a public school student's eligibility for a public education grant to attend another public school.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-07 - Left pending in committee [HB222 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB222-Engrossed.html

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By: Huberty, Patrick H.B. No. 222

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a public school student's eligibility for a public
education grant to attend another public school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 29.202(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A student is eligible to receive a public education
grant or to attend another public school in the district in which
the student resides under this subchapter if the student is
assigned to attend a public school campus:
(1) at which 50 percent or more of the students did not
perform satisfactorily on an assessment instrument administered
under Section 39.023(a) or (c) in any two of the preceding three
years; or
(2) that[, at any time] in either of the preceding two
years was assigned a rating of unacceptable performance [three
years, failed to satisfy any standard] under Section 39.054
[39.054(e)].
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
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, 2013.