Bill Text: TX SB2052 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the first day of the school year for public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Left pending in committee [SB2052 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2052-Introduced.html
By: Taylor of Galveston | S.B. No. 2052 | |
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relating to the first day of the school year for public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 25.0811, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 25.0811 FIRST DAY OF INSTRUCTION. (a) Except as | ||
provided by this section, a school district may not begin | ||
instruction for students for a school year before the third | ||
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(1) begin instruction for students for a school year | ||
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a year-round system under Section 25.084; or | ||
(2) begin instruction for students for a school year | ||
on or after the first Monday in August at a campus or at not more | ||
than 20 percent of the campuses in the district if: | ||
(A) the district has a student enrollment of | ||
190,000 or more; | ||
(B) the district at the beginning of the school | ||
year provides, financed with local funds, days of instruction | ||
required under Section 25.081; | ||
(C) the campus or each of the multiple campuses | ||
are undergoing comprehensive reform, as determined by the board of | ||
trustees of the district; and | ||
(D) a majority of the students at the campus or at | ||
each of the multiple campuses are educationally disadvantaged. | ||
(c) Notwithstanding Chapter 12A, Education Code, including | ||
Section 12A.003(b), a local innovation plan may not provide for the | ||
exemption of a district designated as a district of innovation from | ||
the first day of instruction requirement under this Section. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of | ||
this section, this Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 school | ||
year. (b) Section 25.0811(c), Education Code, as amended by this | ||
Act, applies only to a local innovation plan adopted or renewed on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act. A local innovation plan | ||
adopted or renewed before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
by the law in effect on the date the plan was adopted or renewed, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
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, 2017. |