H.B. No. 2072
AN ACT
relating to payment by district employees for missing textbooks or
instructional technology in public schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 31.104, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) The board of trustees of a school district may not
require an employee of the district to pay for a textbook or
instructional technology that is stolen, misplaced, or not returned
by a student.
SECTION 2. Section 31.104(e), Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies beginning with the 2003-2004 school year.
SECTION 3. 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 September 1, 2003.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2072 was passed by the House on April
25, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2072 on May 30, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0,
2 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2072 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 28, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor