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		By: Martinez (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) | 
        H.B. No. 109 | 
      
      
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               (In the Senate - Received from the House March 21, 2019;  | 
      
      
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        March 27, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on  | 
      
      
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        Education; May 10, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:   | 
      
      
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        Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 10, 2019, sent to printer.) | 
| Click here to see the committee vote | 
      
    
    
      
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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. | 
      
      
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