By: Martinez (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) H.B. No. 109
         (In the Senate - Received from the House March 21, 2019;
  March 27, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Education; May 10, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 10, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the operation of open-enrollment charter schools on
  Memorial Day.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 25.081(f), Education Code, as added by
  Chapter 1144 (H.B. 441), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows:
         (f)  A school district or open-enrollment charter school may
  not provide student instruction on Memorial Day. If a school
  district or open-enrollment charter school would be required to
  provide student instruction on Memorial Day to compensate for
  minutes of instruction lost because of school closures caused by
  disaster, flood, extreme weather conditions, fuel curtailment, or
  another calamity, the commissioner shall approve the instruction of
  students for fewer than the number of minutes required under
  Subsection (a).
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
  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, 2019.
 
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