| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to full-time online programs provided through the state |
|
|
virtual school network. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 26.0031(c-1), Education Code, is amended |
|
|
to read as follows: |
|
|
(c-1) A school district or open-enrollment charter school |
|
|
may decline to pay the cost for a student of more than three |
|
|
yearlong electronic courses, or the equivalent, during any school |
|
|
year. This subsection does not: |
|
|
(1) limit the ability of the student to enroll in |
|
|
additional electronic courses at the student's cost; or |
|
|
(2) apply to a student enrolled in a full-time online |
|
|
program that: |
|
|
(A) was operating on January 1, 2013; or |
|
|
(B) is operated by a school district for the |
|
|
benefit of students eligible to attend a school in the school |
|
|
district under Section 25.001 or by an open-enrollment charter |
|
|
school for the benefit of students eligible for admission to the |
|
|
campus or program under Subchapter D, Chapter 12. |
|
|
SECTION 2. Section 30A.153(a-1), Education Code, is amended |
|
|
to read as follows: |
|
|
(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a), a school district or |
|
|
open-enrollment charter school is limited to the funding described |
|
|
by that subsection for a student's enrollment in not more than three |
|
|
electronic courses during any school year, unless the student is |
|
|
enrolled in a full-time online program that: |
|
|
(1) was operating on January 1, 2013; or |
|
|
(2) is operated by a school district for the benefit of |
|
|
students eligible to attend a school in the school district under |
|
|
Section 25.001 or by an open-enrollment charter school for the |
|
|
benefit of students eligible for admission to the campus or program |
|
|
under Subchapter D, Chapter 12. |
|
|
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, 2017. |