By Hochberg                                            H.B. No. 211
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to compliance by school districts and open-enrollment
 1-3     charter schools with public information decisions issued by the
 1-4     attorney general.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter H, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 552.3241 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 552.3241.  APPEAL BY SCHOOL DISTRICT OR OPEN-ENROLLMENT
 1-9     CHARTER SCHOOL PROHIBITED.  Notwithstanding any other provision in
1-10     this chapter, a school district or an open-enrollment charter
1-11     school, or the officer for public information or other agent of the
1-12     district or school, may not file a suit challenging a decision of
1-13     the attorney general issued under Subchapter G or otherwise seeking
1-14     relief from compliance with the decision.
1-15           SECTION 2.  Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
1-16     amended by adding Section 42.2531 to read as follows:
1-17           Sec. 42.2531.  DISTRIBUTION SUSPENDED.  The commissioner
1-18     shall suspend distribution of state funds under this chapter to a
1-19     school district or an open-enrollment charter school that, not
1-20     later than the 30th day after the date the district or school
1-21     receives a decision of the attorney general issued under Subchapter
1-22     G, Chapter 552, Government Code, fails to comply with the decision.
1-23     The commissioner shall resume distribution of state funds on
1-24     compliance by the district or school with the decision and shall,
1-25     as soon as possible after that date, distribute the amount of state
1-26     funds withheld during the suspension.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  Section 552.3241, Government Code, and Section
 2-2     42.2531, Education Code, as added by this Act, apply only to a
 2-3     decision of the attorney general issued on or after the effective
 2-4     date of this Act.
 2-5           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.