1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 1363
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 14, 1993; April 14, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 6, 1993,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 6, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1363 By: Ratliff
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to the provision of educational materials in the public
1-23 schools to blind or visually handicapped students.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 12.03, Education Code, is
1-26 amended to read as follows:
1-27 (e) The Central Education Agency shall require a publisher
1-28 of a textbook that is adopted by the State Board of Education to
1-29 furnish the agency with computerized textbook files for the
1-30 production of braille textbooks if such computerized textbook files
1-31 are requested by the State Board of Education. Publishers will
1-32 arrange the computerized textbook files in one of several optional
1-33 formats specified by the State Board of Education <computer
1-34 diskettes for literary subjects in the American Standard Code for
1-35 Information Interchange (ASCII) from which Braille versions of the
1-36 textbook can be produced. The publisher will furnish the agency
1-37 with computer diskettes in ASCII for non-literary subjects, e.g.,
1-38 natural sciences, computer science, mathematics, and music, when
1-39 Braille specialty code translation software is available>.
1-40 SECTION 2. Subdivisions (3) and (6), Subsection (e-1),
1-41 Section 12.03, Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-42 (3) Public members of the commission who are not
1-43 employed by publishing companies that have contracts with the
1-44 Central Education Agency are <shall serve at their own expense and
1-45 are not> entitled to reimbursement by the state for their actual
1-46 transportation and lodging expenses related to participation in the
1-47 commission's activities, provided funds are available for such
1-48 reimbursement from gifts and grants received by the Central
1-49 Education Agency. The Central Education Agency may accept gifts
1-50 and grants to provide the reimbursement under this subdivision.
1-51 The Central Education Agency shall deposit the gifts and grants in
1-52 the state treasury to the credit of a special fund to be used only
1-53 for reimbursement under this subdivision. Representatives of a
1-54 state agency shall be reimbursed from the funds of that agency.
1-55 (6) Unless continued in existence by further Acts of
1-56 the Texas Legislature, the commission is abolished on September 1,
1-57 1995 <1993>.
1-58 SECTION 3. Section 12.03, Education Code, is amended by
1-59 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-60 (f) The State Board of Education is authorized to produce in
1-61 Braille ancillary and supplementary instructional materials that
1-62 accompany state adopted textbooks. Publishers of these materials
1-63 shall not be required to provide electronic files for ancillary or
1-64 supplementary materials.
1-65 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-66 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-67 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-68 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.
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2-5 Austin,
2-6 Texas
2-7 May 6, 1993
2-8 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-9 President of the Senate
2-10 Sir:
2-11 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No.
2-12 1363, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-13 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-14 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-15 pass and be printed.
2-16 Ratliff,
2-17 Chairman
2-18 * * * * *
2-19 WITNESSES
2-20 FOR AGAINST ON
2-21 ___________________________________________________________________
2-22 Name: Charles E. Mayo x
2-23 Representing: TEA
2-24 City: Austin
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2-26 Name: Philip Hatley x
2-27 Representing: Self
2-28 City: Austin
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