H.B. No. 2526
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to criteria for admission of certain students into public
  schools.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 25.001(b), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  The board of trustees of a school district or its
  designee shall admit into the public schools of the district free of
  tuition a person who is over five and younger than 21 years of age on
  the first day of September of the school year in which admission is
  sought, and may admit a person who is at least 21 years of age and
  under 26 years of age for the purpose of completing the requirements
  for a high school diploma, if:
               (1)  the person and either parent of the person reside
  in the school district;
               (2)  the person does not reside in the school district
  but a parent of the person resides in the school district and that
  parent is a joint managing conservator or the sole managing
  conservator or possessory conservator of the person;
               (3)  the person and the person's guardian or other
  person having lawful control of the person under a court order
  reside within the school district;
               (4)  the person has established a separate residence
  under Subsection (d);
               (5)  the person is homeless, as defined by 42 U.S.C.
  Section 11302, regardless of the residence of the person, of either
  parent of the person, or of the person's guardian or other person
  having lawful control of the person;
               (6)  the person is a foreign exchange student placed
  with a host family that resides in the school district by a
  nationally recognized foreign exchange program, unless the school
  district has applied for and been granted a waiver by the
  commissioner under Subsection (e);
               (7)  the person resides at a residential facility
  located in the district;
               (8)  the person resides in the school district and is 18
  years of age or older or the person's disabilities of minority have
  been removed; [or]
               (9)  the person does not reside in the school district
  but the grandparent of the person:
                     (A)  resides in the school district; and
                     (B)  provides a substantial amount of
  after-school care for the person as determined by the board; or
               (10)  the person and either parent of the person reside
  in a residence homestead, as defined by Section 11.13(j), Tax Code,
  that is located on a parcel of property any part of which is located
  in the school district.
         SECTION 2.  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.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2526 was passed by the House on May 7,
  2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2526 was passed by the Senate on May
  22, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor