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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the operation of open-enrollment charter schools on |
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Memorial Day. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 25.081(f), Education Code, as added by |
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Chapter 1144 (H.B. 441), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular |
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Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows: |
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(f) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may |
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not provide student instruction on Memorial Day. If a school |
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district or open-enrollment charter school would be required to |
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provide student instruction on Memorial Day to compensate for |
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minutes of instruction lost because of school closures caused by |
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disaster, flood, extreme weather conditions, fuel curtailment, or |
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another calamity, the commissioner shall approve the instruction of |
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students for fewer than the number of minutes required under |
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Subsection (a). |
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SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 |
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school year. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |