1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to waiver applications by a public school campus or
1-3 district.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 7.056(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) A school campus or district seeking a waiver must submit
1-8 a written application to the commissioner not later than the 31st
1-9 day before the campus or district intends to take action requiring
1-10 a waiver. The application must include:
1-11 (1) a written plan approved by the board of trustees
1-12 of the district that states the achievement objectives of the
1-13 campus or district and the inhibition imposed on those objectives
1-14 by the requirement, restriction, or prohibition; and
1-15 (2) written comments and the signature of the
1-16 chairperson of [from] the appropriate campus- or district-level
1-17 committee established under Section 11.251 evidencing review of the
1-18 application by a majority of the members of the committee as
1-19 follows:
1-20 (A) in the case of an application by a district,
1-21 the chairperson of the district-level committee and of each
1-22 campus-level committee whose campus is affected by the waiver must
1-23 comment on and sign the application; and
1-24 (B) in the case of an application by a campus,
2-1 the chairperson of the campus-level committee for the campus must
2-2 comment on and sign the application.
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 617 was passed by the House on May 8,
1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 617 was passed by the Senate on May
24, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor