Bill Text: TX HB539 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 539 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the ability of certain dependents of members of the United States military to enroll full-time in courses provided through the state virtual school network.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-10 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB539 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB539-Comm_Sub.html

	85R19482 MEW-F

	By: VanDeaver, Bernal, Cosper,	H.B. No. 539
	González of El Paso, Sheffield

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 539:

	By: Koop	C.S.H.B. No. 539



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the ability of certain dependents of members of the
	United States military to enroll full-time in courses provided
	through the state virtual school network.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 30A.002(b), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(b) A student is eligible to enroll full-time in courses
	provided through the state virtual school network only if the
	student:
	(1) was enrolled in a public school in this state in
	the preceding school year; [or]
	(2) is a dependent of a member of the United States
	military who has been deployed or transferred to this state and was
	enrolled in a publicly funded school outside of this state in the
	preceding school year; or
	(3) has been placed in substitute care in this state,
	regardless of whether the student was enrolled in a public school in
	this state in the preceding school year.
	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
	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, 2017.