Bill Text: TX HB895 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the removal of restrictions on funding and payment of costs for certain full-time online educational programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB895 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB895-Introduced.html
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By: Bohac | H.B. No. 895 |
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relating to the removal of restrictions on funding and payment of | ||
costs for certain full-time online educational programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 26.0031(c-1), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
may decline to pay the cost for a student of more than three | ||
yearlong electronic courses, or the equivalent, during any school | ||
year. This subsection does not: | ||
(1) limit the ability of the student to enroll in | ||
additional electronic courses at the student's cost; or | ||
(2) apply to a student enrolled in a full-time online | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 30A.153(a-1), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a), a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school is limited to the funding described | ||
by that subsection for a student's enrollment in not more than three | ||
electronic courses during any school year, unless the student is | ||
enrolled in a full-time online program [ |
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SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply to | ||
electronic courses taken through the state virtual school network | ||
beginning with the 2017-2018 school year. | ||
SECTION 4. 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. |