Bill Text: TX SB738 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a parental role in determining sanctions applied to a public school campus under certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB738 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB738-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 738 |
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relating to a parental role in determining sanctions applied to a | ||
public school campus under certain circumstances. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.107, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsections (e-2) and (e-3) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(e) If a campus is considered to have an unacceptable | ||
performance rating for three consecutive school years after the | ||
campus is reconstituted under Subsection (a), the commissioner, | ||
subject to Subsection (e-1) or (e-2), shall order: | ||
(1) repurposing of the campus under this section; | ||
(2) alternative management of the campus under this | ||
section; or | ||
(3) closure of the campus. | ||
(e-2) For purposes of this subsection, "parent" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 12.051. If the commissioner is | ||
presented, in the time and manner specified by commissioner rule, a | ||
written petition signed by the parents of a majority of the students | ||
enrolled at a campus to which Subsection (e) applies, specifying | ||
the action described by Subsection (e)(1), (2), or (3) that the | ||
parents request the commissioner to order, the commissioner shall, | ||
except as otherwise authorized by this subsection, order the | ||
specific action requested. If the board of trustees of the school | ||
district in which the campus is located presents to the | ||
commissioner, in the time and manner specified by commissioner | ||
rule, a written request that the commissioner order specific action | ||
authorized under Subsection (e) other than the specific action | ||
requested in the parents' petition and a written explanation of the | ||
basis for the board's request, the commissioner may order the | ||
action requested by the board of trustees. | ||
(e-3) For purposes of Subsection (e-2), the signature of | ||
only one parent of a student is required. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
school year. | ||
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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 738 passed the Senate on | ||
April 28, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 738 passed the House on | ||
May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 11, three | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |