Bill Text: TX SB421 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of certain requirements relating to parental rights, open records, and public information to school districts designated as districts of innovation.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to Education [SB421 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB421-Introduced.html

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88R1260 MLH-D
By: Paxton S.B. No. 421

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the applicability of certain requirements relating to
parental rights, open records, and public information to school
districts designated as districts of innovation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12A.004(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A local innovation plan may not provide for the
exemption of a district designated as a district of innovation from
or limit the applicability of [the following provisions of this
title]:
(1) a state or federal requirement applicable to an
open-enrollment charter school operating under Subchapter D,
Chapter 12;
(2) Subchapters A, C, D, and E, Chapter 11, except that
a district may be exempt from Sections 11.1511(b)(5) and (14) and
Section 11.162;
(3) any parental right or entitlement described or
provided under Chapter 26;
(4) [(3)] state curriculum and graduation
requirements adopted under Chapter 28; [and]
(5) [(4)] academic and financial accountability and
sanctions under Chapters 39 and 39A; or
(6) any requirement under Chapter 551 or 552,
Government Code.
SECTION 2. Section 12A.008, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-2) to read as follows:
(b-2) The commissioner may terminate a district's
designation as a district of innovation if the district's local
innovation plan exempts the district from a provision or limits the
application of a provision in violation of Section 12A.004(a)(3) or
(6).
SECTION 3. Section 12A.004(a), Education Code, as amended
by this Act, applies to each local innovation plan adopted under
Chapter 12A, Education Code, regardless of whether the plan was
adopted before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. A local
innovation plan adopted or renewed before the effective date of
this Act must comply with Section 12A.004(a), Education Code, as
amended by this Act, not later than September 1, 2023.
SECTION 4. Section 12A.008(b-2), Education Code, as added
by this Act, applies beginning September 1, 2023.
SECTION 5. 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, 2023.