Bill Text: TX SR520 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 1356.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (N/A - Dead) 2021-05-28 - Received by the Secretary of the Senate [SR520 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SR520-Introduced.html

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87R29878 BDP-D
By: Hughes S.R. No. 520

R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 87th
Legislature, Regular Session 2021, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on Senate
Bill 1356 (the participation by members of nonprofit teacher
organizations in a tutoring program for public school students and
related retirement benefits for certain tutors participating in the
program) to consider and take action on the following matters:
(1) Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the
committee to add text on a matter not included in either the house
or senate version of the bill by adding the following text to
proposed SECTION 2 of the bill, in added Section 33.913(a),
Education Code:
or a person who is not a member but meets the requirements under
Subsection (b)
Explanation: The addition is necessary to permit a person
who is not a member of a nonprofit teacher organization to
participate in the tutoring program.
(2) Senate Rules 12.03(1) and (4) are suspended to permit
the committee to amend text not in disagreement and to add text on a
matter not included in either the house or senate version of the
bill in proposed SECTION 2 of the bill, amending the text to added
Section 33.913(c), Education Code, to read as follows:
(c) The superintendent or chief executive officer of each
school district or open-enrollment charter school or the person
designated by the superintendent or chief executive officer shall:
(1) oversee the tutoring program within the district
or school; and
(2) not later than the last day of each semester,
submit a report to the board of trustees of the district or the
governing body of the school that includes, with respect to that
semester:
(A) the number of active or retired teachers who
contacted the district or school to offer tutoring services to
students in the district or school; and
(B) the number of active or retired teachers who
were used by the district or school as a tutor on a volunteer basis
or employed by the district or school to provide tutoring services
for compensation.
Explanation: The changes are necessary to require the chief
executive officer of an open-enrollment charter school to oversee
the tutoring program and to require the superintendent or chief
executive officer of each school district or open-enrollment
charter school, or other person designated by the school district
or open-enrollment charter school, to submit a report each semester
regarding the tutoring program to the board of trustees of the
district or governing body of the school.
(3) Senate Rules 12.03(1) and (4) are suspended to permit
the committee to amend text not in disagreement and to add text on a
matter not included in either the house or senate version of the
bill in proposed SECTION 2 of the bill, amending the text to added
Section 33.913(d), Education Code, to read as follows:
(d) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may
use any available local, state, or federal funds to provide
compensation to a person participating in the program as a tutor who
is providing tutoring for compensation under the program.
Explanation: The additions are necessary to allow a school
district or open-enrollment charter school to use local, state, or
federal funds to compensate a person providing tutoring services
under the program.
(4) Senate Rules 12.03(1) and (4) are suspended to permit
the committee to amend text not in disagreement and to add text on a
matter not included in either the house or senate version of the
bill in proposed SECTION 2 of the bill, amending the text to added
Section 33.913(e), Education Code, to read as follows:
(e) If an active or retired teacher who has been approved
for participation in the tutoring program contacts a school
district or open-enrollment charter school to provide tutoring to
students in the district or school and the district or school needs
tutoring assistance, the district or school may:
(1) if the teacher is providing tutoring services on a
volunteer basis, use the volunteer tutoring services provided by
the teacher; or
(2) if the district or school has local, state, or
federal funds for purposes of the tutoring program and the teacher
is providing tutoring services for compensation, employ the teacher
as a tutor.
Explanation: The additions are necessary to give school
districts and open-enrollment charter schools the discretion to, if
the teacher contacts the district or school and the district or
school needs tutoring assistance, use or employ, using local,
state, or federal funds, an active or retired teacher as a tutor on
a volunteer basis or for compensation.
(5) Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the
committee to add text on a matter not included in either the house
or senate version of the bill by adding the following text to
proposed SECTION 2 of the bill, in added Section 33.913(f)(2),
Education Code:
, any open-enrollment charter schools located within that district,
Explanation: The addition is necessary to require a
nonprofit organization participating in the tutoring program to
provide contact information of certain persons for certain
open-enrollment charter schools.
(6) Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the
committee to add text on a matter not included in either the house
or senate version of the bill by adding the following text to
proposed SECTION 4 of the bill, in added Section 825.604(2),
Government Code:
or open-enrollment charter schools
Explanation: The addition is necessary to require the
retirement system to provide a statement directing members and
retirees to contact their local open-enrollment charter schools
regarding the tutoring program.