Bill Text: TX HB963 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 963 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the availability of school district trustee information on the Internet and a review of the essential knowledge and skills of certain curricula.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB963 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB963-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 963




	AN ACT
	relating to the availability of school district trustee information
	on the Internet and a review of the essential knowledge and skills
	of certain curricula.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 11.1518 to read as follows:
	Sec. 11.1518. TRUSTEE INFORMATION POSTED ON WEBSITE. (a)
	Each school district that maintains an Internet website shall post
	on the website the name, e-mail address, and term of office,
	including the date the term began and the date the term expires, of
	each member of the district's board of trustees.
	(b) If a school district does not maintain an Internet
	website, the district shall submit the information required by
	Subsection (a) to the agency. On receipt of the district's
	information, the agency shall post the information on the agency's
	Internet website.
	(c) Each time there is a change in the membership of a school
	district's board of trustees, the district shall update the
	information required under Subsection (a) and, as applicable:
	(1) post the updated information on the district's
	Internet website; or
	(2) submit the updated information to the agency for
	posting on the agency's Internet website in accordance with
	Subsection (b).

	SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2020, the State Board of
	Education shall:
	(1) conduct a review of the essential knowledge and
	skills of the career and technology and technology applications
	curricula; and
	(2) amend the board's rules in the Texas
	Administrative Code to consolidate the technology applications
	courses for grades 9 through 12 in 19 T.A.C. Chapter 126, Subchapter
	C, with the career and technical education courses in 19 T.A.C.
	Chapter 130, and eliminate duplicative courses while ensuring
	certifications are aligned with the rigor of each individual
	course.
	SECTION 3. The State Board of Education is required to
	implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature
	appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the
	legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that
	purpose, the State Board of Education may, but is not required to,
	implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations
	available for that purpose.
	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, 2019.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 963 was passed by the House on May 2,
	2019, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 3, 1 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 963 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 122, Nays 18,
	1 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 963 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 19, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
	0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor