Bill Text: TX SB1711 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1711 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to rules which insure that local independent school district selection of non-state adopted instructional materials to be purchased with state funds, is as accountable and transparent as the State Board of Education approval process for state-adopted instruction materials.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-09 - Left pending in committee [SB1711 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB1711-Introduced.html



	By: Campbell	S.B. No. 1711


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to rules which insure that local independent school
	district selection of non-state adopted instructional materials to
	be purchased with state funds, is as accountable and transparent as
	the State Board of Education approval process for state-adopted
	instruction materials.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 31.003, Education Code, is amended by
	designating the current rule as Subsection (a) and adding
	Subsections (b), (b-1), (b-2), (b-3), (b-4), (b-5), and (b-6)
	to read as follows:
	(a) The State Board of Education may adopt rules, consistent
	with this chapter, for the adoption, requisition,
	distribution, care, use, and disposal of instructional
	materials.
	(b) The state Board of Education may by rule set minimum
	standards for local procedures selecting non-state adopted
	instructional materials to be purchased with state funds only
	in the areas of:
	(1)public notice, access, and input;
	(2) review by independent panel to determine coverage
	of the essential knowledge and skills;
	(3) prevention/correction of factual errors;
	(4)coverage of essential knowledge and skills in the
	student version as well as in the teacher version of
	instructional materials, pursuant to TEC 31.023(a);
	(5) compliance with the stated purpose of TEC
	28.002(h); and
	(6)safeguards against corruption.
	SECTION 2. 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, 2015.