Bill Text: TX SCR47 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Instructing the enrolling clerk of the senate to make corrections to S.B. No. 2.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2013-05-27 - Withdrawn by the Author [SCR47 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SCR47-Introduced.html
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| By: Patrick | S.C.R. No. 47 | |
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| WHEREAS, Senate Bill No. 2 has been adopted by the senate and | ||
| the house of representatives and is being prepared for enrollment; | ||
| and | ||
| WHEREAS, The bill contains technical errors that should be | ||
| corrected; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED by the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas, That | ||
| the enrolling clerk of the senate be instructed to correct Senate | ||
| Bill No. 2 as follows: | ||
| (1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the | ||
| bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly: | ||
| SECTION ____. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.088 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.088. PARTICIPATION IN LEAGUE CONTESTS BY SPECIALTY | ||
| HIGH SCHOOL. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Division" includes academics, athletics, or | ||
| music divisions of league contests. | ||
| (2) "Specialty high school" means the high school of | ||
| an open-enrollment charter school that: | ||
| (A) enrolls students without regard to the | ||
| attendance zones of the school district in which the high school is | ||
| located; and | ||
| (B) is determined by the University | ||
| Interscholastic League to specialize in a division of league | ||
| contests. | ||
| (3) "League" means the University Interscholastic | ||
| League. | ||
| (b) To ensure fair competition, the league shall adopt rules | ||
| governing participation in league contests by students attending a | ||
| specialty high school. | ||
| (c) The league rules adopted under Subsection (b) must | ||
| require that, for any division of league contests that a specialty | ||
| high school emphasizes, the school will be assigned to the | ||
| conference with the largest student enrollment, except that the | ||
| rules may provide for reasonable exceptions from that requirement | ||
| based on travel, availability of participant schools, or other | ||
| criteria. | ||
| (d) League rules adopted under Subsection (b) must apply | ||
| beginning with the 2013-2014 school year. This subsection expires | ||
| August 31, 2014. | ||
| (2) Strike SECTION 48 of the bill (page 46, lines 16-23), | ||
| repealing provisions of the Education Code, and substitute the | ||
| following appropriately numbered SECTION: | ||
| SECTION ____. The following provisions of the Education | ||
| Code are repealed: | ||
| (1) Subsection (b), Section 12.1055; | ||
| (2) Subsection (b), Section 12.113; and | ||
| (3) Subsection (b), Section 12.1161. | ||
