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By:  Pitts                                                        H.B. No. 32 



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to certain public school textbooks.                                  
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 31.1031, Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:  
	Sec. 31.1031.  SHORTAGE OF REQUISITIONED TEXTBOOKS.  If a 
school district or open-enrollment charter school does not have a 
sufficient number of copies of a textbook used by the district or 
school for use during the following school year, and a sufficient 
number of additional copies will not be available from the 
depository or the publisher within the time specified by Section 
31.151(a)(8), the district or school is entitled to[:
		[(1)]  be reimbursed from the state textbook fund, at a 
rate and in the manner provided by State Board of Education rule, 
for the purchase of a sufficient number of used adopted textbooks[; 
or
		[(2)  return currently used textbooks to the 
commissioner in exchange for sufficient copies, if available, of 
other textbooks on the conforming or nonconforming list to be used 
during the following school year].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the 
legislative session.