Bill Text: TX SB1813 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1813 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of the Education Code to Head Start programs and the authority of the commissioner of education to make a certain determination regarding those programs.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-20 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB1813 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1813-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Zaffirini	S.B. No. 1813
	(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2011; March 24, 2011, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 20, 2011,
	reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
	following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 20, 2011, sent to printer.)

	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1813	By: Davis


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the applicability of the Education Code to Head Start
	programs and the authority of the commissioner of education to make
	a certain determination regarding those programs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 4, Education Code, is amended by adding
	Section 4.003 to read as follows:
	Sec. 4.003. APPLICABILITY TO HEAD START PROGRAMS. A
	provision in this title applies to a Head Start program only to the
	extent that the provision explicitly provides for that
	applicability.
	SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 7.031, Education Code,
	is amended to read as follows:
	(b) Unless otherwise prohibited by federal law, the
	commissioner may determine[~~, solely for purposes of the program's~~
	~~eligibility to receive federal grant funds, for the purpose of~~
	~~technology services and support,~~] that a Head Start program
	operated in this state by a school district or a community-based
	organization serves the function of an elementary school by
	providing elementary education at one or more program facilities,
	regardless of whether the Head Start program facilities are located
	on a school district campus.
	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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