Bill Text: TX SB1042 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of employees convicted of certain offenses to provide services under a contract with a public school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB1042 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1042-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of employees convicted of certain offenses to provide services under a contract with a public school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB1042 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1042-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hegar | S.B. No. 1042 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 1, 2011; March 16, 2011, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 4, 2011, | ||
reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
April 4, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the eligibility of employees convicted of certain | ||
offenses to provide services under a contract with a public school. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsection (o), Section 22.0834, Education Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(o) A contracting or subcontracting entity may not permit an | ||
employee to whom Subsection (a) applies to provide services at a | ||
school if the employee has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor | ||
offense that would prevent a person from being employed [ |
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SECTION 2. Subsection (o), Section 22.0834, Education Code, | ||
as amended by this Act, applies to the provision of services at a | ||
public school by an employee of a contracting or subcontracting | ||
entity without regard to whether the contract or subcontract under | ||
which the person is employed was entered into before, on, or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. | ||
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, 2011. | ||
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