By: Culberson H.B. No. 1617
73R3076 CAE-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a waiver from statutes and rules for a school district
1-3 or campus regarding textbook selection.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.273(f), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (f) A school district or campus that receives a waiver under
1-8 this section for textbook selection may select for purchase a
1-9 textbook not on a state-adopted multiple list. The textbook shall
1-10 be purchased by the district and shall be used for the same number
1-11 of years for which the textbooks for the subject or course are
1-12 adopted by the State Board of Education. The unit cost of the
1-13 textbooks selected shall not exceed the unit cost of the costliest
1-14 textbook on the multiple list for the subject or course. The
1-15 commissioner of education shall calculate the allowable cost and
1-16 transmit from the state textbook fund that amount to the district
1-17 for purchase of the textbooks. The State Board of Education and
1-18 the commissioner of education may not <shall> adopt rules
1-19 restricting <necessary for> the implementation of this subsection.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
1-21 school year.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.