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• Texas Education Code Section 1.001 - Applicability
  (a) This code applies to all educational institutions supported in whole or in part by state tax funds unless specifically excluded by this code. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 1.002 - Equal Educational Services Or Opportunities
  (a) An educational institution undertaking to provide education, services, or activities to any individual within the jurisdiction or geographical boundaries of the educational institution shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 1.003 - The Flying Of The United States And Texas Flags
  On all regular school days, every school and other educational institution to which this code applies shall fly the United States and Texas flags. Added ...
• Texas Education Code Section 1.004 - Display Of National Motto
  A public elementary or secondary school or an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003 may display the United States national motto, "In ...
• Texas Education Code Section 1.005 - Education Research Centers; Sharing Student Information
  (a) In this section: (1) "Center" means a center for education research authorized by this section. (2) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher Education Coordinating ...
• Texas Education Code Section 4.001 - Public Education Mission And Objectives
  (a) The mission of the public education system of this state is to ensure that all Texas children have access to a quality education that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 4.002 - Public Education Academic Goals
  To serve as a foundation for a well-balanced and appropriate education: GOAL 1: The students in the public education system will demonstrate exemplary performance in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 5.001 - Definitions
  In this title: (1) "Agency" means the Texas Education Agency. (2) "Classroom teacher" means an educator who is employed by a school district and who, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.001 - Definition
  In this chapter, "board" means the State Board of Education. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.002 - Texas Education Agency: Composition And Purpose
  (a) The commissioner of education and the agency staff comprise the Texas Education Agency. (b) The agency shall carry out the educational functions specifically delegated ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.003 - Limitation On Authority
  An educational function not specifically delegated to the agency or the board under this code is reserved to and shall be performed by school districts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.004 - Sunset Provision
  The Texas Education Agency is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the agency ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.005 - Cooperation Between State Agencies Of Education
  The State Board of Education and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in conjunction with other appropriate agencies, shall ensure that long-range plans and educational ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.006 - Coordination Of Records
  The commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education shall ensure that records relating to student performance held by the Texas Education Agency and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.008 - Public Access To Peims Data
  (a) The commissioner with the assistance of an advisory panel described by Subsection (b) shall develop a request for proposal for a qualified third-party contractor ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.009 - Best Practices; Clearinghouse
  (a) In coordination with the Legislative Budget Board, the agency shall establish an online clearinghouse of information relating to best practices of campuses and school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.010 - Electronic Student Records System
  (a) In this section, "institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. (b) Each school district, open-enrollment charter school, and institution of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.021 - Texas Education Agency Powers And Duties
  (a) The agency shall perform the educational functions provided by Subsection (b). (b)(1) The agency shall administer and monitor compliance with education programs required by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.022 - Internal Audit
  The auditor appointed by the commissioner under Section 7.055 shall coordinate the agency's efforts to evaluate and improve its internal operations. Added by Acts 1995, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.023 - Agency Employment Policy
  A decision of the agency relating to employment shall be made without regard to a person's race, color, disability, sex, religion, age, or national origin. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.024 - Investment Capital Fund
  (a) The investment capital fund consists of money transferred to the fund as provided by Section 42.152(l). The agency shall administer the fund. The purposes ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.025 - Ymca Account
  The YMCA account is a separate account in the general revenue fund. The account is composed of money deposited to the credit of the account ...
• Texas Education Code -
  § 7.026. DONATIONS FOR USE RELATED TO CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR) INSTRUCTION. (a) The agency may accept donations, including donations of equipment, for use ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.027 - Texas Music Foundation Account
  (a) The Texas Music Foundation account is established as a separate account in the general revenue fund. The account is composed of money deposited to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.028 - Limitation On Compliance Monitoring
  (a) Except as provided by Section 29.001(5), 29.010(a), 39.074, or 39.075, the agency may monitor compliance with requirements applicable to a process or program provided ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.051 - Selection Of The Commissioner
  The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint the commissioner of education. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.052 - Term Of Office
  The commissioner serves a term of office of four years commensurate with the term of the governor. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.053 - Removal From Office
  The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, may remove the commissioner from office as provided by Section 9, Article XV, Texas Constitution. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.054 - Qualification
  The commissioner must be a citizen of the United States. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.055 - Commissioner Of Education Powers And Duties
  (a) The commissioner has the powers and duties provided by Subsection (b). (b)(1) The commissioner shall serve as the educational leader of the state. (2) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.056 - Waivers And Exemptions
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a school campus or district may apply to the commissioner for a waiver of a requirement, restriction, or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.057 - Appeals
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a person may appeal in writing to the commissioner if the person is aggrieved by: (1) the school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.058 - Research On Mathematics Skills Acquisition And Program Effectiveness
  From funds appropriated for the purpose, the commissioner shall award to one or more institutions that have demonstrated an ability to conduct science-based research on ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.059 - Mathematics Homework And Grading Service
  (a) From funds appropriated for the purpose, the commissioner shall help make available services that assist teachers in providing and grading mathematics homework assignments. The ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.060 - Reducing Paperwork
  (a) At least once each even-numbered year, the commissioner shall review and, to the greatest extent practicable, reduce written reports and other paperwork required of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.101 - Composition
  (a) The State Board of Education is composed of 15 members elected from districts. Each district from which a board member is elected is composed ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.102 - State Board Of Education Powers And Duties
  (a) The board may perform only those duties relating to school districts or regional education service centers assigned to the board by the constitution of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.103 - Eligibility For Membership
  (a) A person is not eligible for election to or service on the board if the person holds an office with this state or any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.104 - Terms
  (a) At each general election immediately following a decennial reapportionment of districts, one member shall be elected to the board from each district. Except as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.105 - Compensation And Reimbursement
  (a) A member of the board is not entitled to receive compensation. (b) A member of the board is entitled to reimbursement of the member's ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.106 - Meetings
  The board shall hold four meetings a year in Austin, Texas, on dates determined by the chair and may hold other meetings as may be ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.107 - Officers
  (a) The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint the chair from among the membership of the board. The chair serves ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.108 - Prohibition On Political Contribution Or Activity
  (a) A person interested in selling bonds of any type or a person engaged in manufacturing, shipping, selling, or advertising textbooks or otherwise connected with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.109 - Designation As State Board For Career And Technology Education
  (a) The board is also the State Board for Career and Technology Education. (b) The commissioner is the executive officer through whom the State Board ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.110 - Public Testimony
  The board shall develop and implement policies that provide the public with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the board and to speak on any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.111 - High School Equivalency Examinations
  (a) The board shall provide for the administration of high school equivalency examinations, including administration by the adjutant general's department for students described by Subdivision ...
• Texas Education Code Section 7.112 - Representation Of Textbook Publisher By Former Member Of Board
  (a) A former member of the State Board of Education who is employed by or otherwise receives compensation from a textbook publisher may not, before ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.001 - Establishment
  (a) The commissioner shall provide for the establishment and operation of not more than 20 regional education service centers. (b) Regional education service centers shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.002 - Purpose
  Regional education service centers shall: (1) assist school districts in improving student performance in each region of the system; (2) enable school districts to operate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.003 - Governance
  (a) Each regional education service center is governed by a board of directors composed of seven members. (b) The commissioner shall adopt rules to provide ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.004 - Executive Director
  The regional education service center board of directors shall employ an executive director. The selection and dismissal of the executive director is subject to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.005 - Exemption From Taxation
  A regional education service center and its employees are subject to or exempt from taxation in the same manner as a school district and school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.006 - Immunity From Liability
  An employee or volunteer of a regional education service center is immune from liability to the same extent as an employee or volunteer of a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.007 - Transferability Of Leave
  (a) A regional education service center shall accept personal leave accrued by a center employee as sick leave under state law by an employee who ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.008 - Applicability Of Certain Laws Relating To Political Activities
  A regional education service center and each center employee is subject to Chapter 556, Government Code, and for purposes of that chapter: (1) the center ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.009 - Applicability Of Certain Laws Relating To Conflict Of Interest
  (a) A member of the board of directors and the executive director of a regional education service center are each considered to be a local ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.051 - Core Services And Services To Improve Performance
  (a) Each regional education service center shall use funds distributed to the center under Section 8.121 to develop, maintain, and deliver services identified under this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.052 - State Initiatives
  As directed by the commissioner, each regional education service center shall, as necessary, use funds distributed under Section 8.123 to implement initiatives identified by the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.053 - Additional Services
  In addition to the services provided under Section 8.051 and the initiatives implemented under Section 8.052, a regional education service center may: (1) offer any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.054 - Prohibition On Regulatory Function
  A regional education service center may not perform a regulatory function regarding a school district. This section does not prohibit a regional education service center ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.055 - Regional Education Service Center Property
  (a) Each regional education service center may purchase or lease property or acquire property through lease-purchase and may incur debts for that purpose. Any transaction ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.056 - Limitation On Compensation For Certain Services
  A regional education service center that acts as a fiscal agent or broker in connection with an agreement between two school districts under Subchapter E, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.101 - Performance Standards And Indicators
  The commissioner shall establish performance standards and indicators for regional education service centers that measure the achievement of the objectives in Section 8.002. Performance standards ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.102 - Data Reporting
  Each regional education service center shall report audited or budgeted financial information and any other information requested by the commissioner for use in assessing the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.103 - Annual Evaluation
  The commissioner shall conduct an annual evaluation of each executive director and regional education service center. Each evaluation must include: (1) an audit of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.104 - Sanctions
  The commissioner shall develop a system of corrective actions to require of a regional education service center that the commissioner determines to be deficient in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.121 - Funding For Core Services And Services To Improve Performance
  (a) Regional education service centers receive state financial support for services provided under Section 8.051 from money appropriated for the Foundation School Program. The commissioner ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.122 - Incentive Funding For District Efficiencies
  (a) The legislature may appropriate money from the foundation school fund to establish an incentive fund to encourage efficiency in the provision of services by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.123 - Funding For State Initiatives
  (a) The legislature may appropriate money from the foundation school fund or other sources to implement initiatives identified by the legislature. (b) The commissioner may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.124 - Innovative And Emergency Grants
  (a) The legislature may appropriate money from the foundation school fund or other sources for grants to regional education service centers. Money appropriated under this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 8.125 - Contracts For Grants
  Each regional education service center board of directors, under rules adopted by the commissioner, may enter into a contract for a grant from a public ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.001 - Accreditation
  Each school district must be accredited by the agency as provided by Subchapter D, Chapter 39. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.002 - Responsibility Of School Districts For Public Education
  The school districts and charter schools created in accordance with the laws of this state have the primary responsibility for implementing the state's system of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.003 - Administrative Efficiency
  Text of subsec. (a) effective until September 1, 2009 (a) Not later than December 1, 2006, the commissioner shall evaluate the feasibility of including ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.011 - Organization
  The board of trustees of an independent school district, the superintendent of the district, the campus administrators, and the district- and campus-level committees established under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.051 - Governance Of Independent School District; Number Of Trustees
  (a) An independent school district is governed by a board of trustees who, as a body corporate, shall oversee the management of the district. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.052 - Single-Member Trustee Districts
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the board of trustees of an independent school district, on its own motion, may order that trustees of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.053 - Option To Continue In Office Following Adoption Of Single-Member Plan Or Redistricting
  (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district that adopts a redistricting plan under Section 11.052 may provide for the trustees in office ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.054 - Electing Trustees By Cumulative Voting
  (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district that elects its trustees at large or at large by position may order that elections ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.055 - Application To Get On Ballot
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), an application of a candidate for a place on the ballot must be filed not later than 5 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.056 - Write-In Voting
  (a) In an election for trustees of an independent school district, a write-in vote may not be counted for a person unless that person has ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.057 - Determination Of Results; Optional Majority Vote Requirement
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), in an independent school district in which the positions of trustees are designated by number as provided by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.058 - Election By Position
  (a) The designation of the positions of trustees by number is or may be required only as specified by this section. (b) The positions on ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.0581 - Joint Elections Required
  (a) An election for trustees of an independent school district shall be held on the same date as: (1) the election for the members of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.059 - Terms
  (a) A trustee of an independent school district serves a term of three or four years. (b) Elections for trustees with three-year terms shall be ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.060 - Vacancies
  (a) If a vacancy occurs on the board of trustees of an independent school district, the remaining trustees may fill the vacancy by appointment until ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.061 - Qualification And Organization Of Trustees; Compensation
  (a) The trustees first elected or appointed after the creation or incorporation of an independent school district shall file their official oaths with the county ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.062 - Election Of Officers In Certain School Districts
  An independent school district in which, before September 1, 1995, part of the trustees were elected from single-member trustee districts and one or more board ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.063 - Eligibility For Employment
  A trustee of an independent school district may not accept employment with that school district until the first anniversary of the date the trustee's membership ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.064 - Filing Of Financial Statement By Trustee
  (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district by resolution adopted by majority vote may require each member of the board to file ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.065 - Applicability To Certain Districts
  (a) Sections 11.052(g) and (h) and Sections 11.059(a) and (b) do not apply to the board of trustees of a school district if: (1) the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.151 - In General
  (a) The trustees of an independent school district constitute a body corporate and in the name of the district may acquire and hold real and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.152 - Taxes; Bonds
  The trustees of an independent school district may levy and collect taxes and issue bonds in compliance with Chapter 45. If a specific rate of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.153 - Sale Of Minerals
  (a) Minerals in land belonging to an independent school district may be sold to any person under this section. (b) The sale must be authorized ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.154 - Sale Of Property Other Than Minerals
  (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district may, by resolution, authorize the sale of any property, other than minerals, held in trust ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.1541 - Donation Of Surplus Property
  (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district may, by resolution, authorize the donation of real property and improvements formerly used as a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.155 - Eminent Domain
  (a) An independent school district may, by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, acquire the fee simple title to real property for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.156 - Donations To The Public Schools
  (a) A conveyance, devise, or bequest of property for the benefit of the public schools made by anyone for any county, municipality, or district, if ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.157 - Contracts For Educational Services
  The board of trustees of an independent school district may contract with a public or private entity for that entity to provide educational services for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.158 - Authority To Charge Fees
  (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district may require payment of: (1) a fee for materials used in any program in which ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.159 - Member Training And Orientation
  (a) The State Board of Education shall provide a training course for independent school district trustees to be offered by the regional education service centers. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.160 - Change Of School District Name
  (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district by resolution may change the name of the school district. (b) The board shall give ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.161 - Frivolous Suit
  In a civil suit brought under state law, against an independent school district or an officer of an independent school district acting under color of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.162 - School Uniforms
  (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district may adopt rules that require students at a school in the district to wear school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.163 - Employment Policy
  (a) The board of trustees of each independent school district shall adopt a policy providing for the employment and duties of district personnel. The employment ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.164 - Restricting Written Information
  (a) The board of trustees of each school district shall limit redundant requests for information and the number and length of written reports that a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.165 - Access To School Campuses
  The board of trustees of an independent school district may adopt rules to keep school campuses, including school libraries, open for recreational activities, latchkey programs, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.166 - Operation On Campus Of Institution Of Higher Education
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district may operate a school or program or hold a class on the campus of an institution ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.167 - Operation Outside District Boundaries
  The board of trustees of a school district may operate a school or program, including an extracurricular program, or hold a class outside the boundaries ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.168 - Use Of District Resources Prohibited For Certain Purposes
  Text of section as added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 979, § 1 The board of trustees of a school district may not ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.168 - Electioneering Prohibited
  Text of section as added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 1109, § 32 Notwithstanding any other law, the board of trustees of an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.170 - Internal Auditor
  If a school district employs an internal auditor: (1) the board of trustees shall select the internal auditor; and (2) the internal auditor shall report ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.201 - Superintendents
  (a) The superintendent is the educational leader and the chief executive officer of the school district. (b) The board of trustees of an independent school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.202 - Principals
  (a) The principal of a school is the instructional leader of the school and shall be provided with adequate training and personnel assistance to assume ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.203 - School Leadership Pilot Program For Principals
  Text of section effective until September 1, 2010 (a) The agency shall develop and implement a school leadership pilot program for principals in cooperation ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.251 - Planning And Decision-Making Process
  (a) The board of trustees of each independent school district shall ensure that a district improvement plan and improvement plans for each campus are developed, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.252 - District-Level Planning And Decision-Making
  (a) Each school district shall have a district improvement plan that is developed, evaluated, and revised annually, in accordance with district policy, by the superintendent ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.253 - Campus Planning And Site-Based Decision-Making
  (a) Each school district shall maintain current policies and procedures to ensure that effective planning and site-based decision-making occur at each campus to direct and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.254 - State Responsibilities For The Planning And Decision-Making Process
  (a) The commissioner shall oversee the provision of training and technical support to all districts and campuses in respect to planning and site-based decision-making through ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.255 - Dropout Prevention Review
  (a) Each district-level planning and decision-making committee and each campus-level planning and decision-making committee for a junior, middle, or high school campus shall analyze information ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.301 - Application Of Former Law
  (a) A school district or county system operating under former Chapter 17, 18, 22, 25, 26, 27, or 28 on May 1, 1995, may continue ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.302 - Public Information
  The governing body of a school district or county system to which Section 11.301 applies shall make available to the public for inspection and copying ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.303 - Municipal School Districts
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, a school district operating under former Chapter 24 may continue to operate under that chapter as it ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.351 - Authority To Establish Special-Purpose School District
  (a) On the recommendation of the commissioner and after consulting with the school districts involved and obtaining the approval of a majority of those districts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.352 - Governance Of Special-Purpose District
  (a) The State Board of Education shall appoint for each district established under Section 11.351 a board of three, five, or seven trustees, as determined ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.353 - Admission And Attendance
  A child is eligible to attend school in a military reservation school district if the child is eligible under Section 25.001 and is the child ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.354 - Abolition Of Special-Purpose District
  On the written request signed by a majority of the board of trustees of a military reservation school district, the State Board of Education may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.355 - Annexation Of Additional Territory By Certain Special-Purpose Districts
  (a) Any military reservation territory that is subject to the same post or base command as a military reservation used to house dependents of military ...
• Texas Education Code Section 11.356 - Support Of Students Enrolled In Special-Purpose School Districts
  The independent or common school district that is responsible for providing education services to a student who is enrolled in a special-purpose school district established ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.001 - Purposes Of Chapter
  (a) The purposes of this chapter are to: (1) improve student learning; (2) increase the choice of learning opportunities within the public school system; (3) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.0011 - Alternative Method Of Operation
  As an alternative to operating in the manner generally provided by this title, an independent school district, a school campus, or an educational program may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.002 - Classes Of Charter
  The classes of charter under this chapter are: (1) a home-rule school district charter as provided by Subchapter B; (2) a campus or campus program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.003 - Authority Of Board Of Trustees To Grant Other Charters
  This chapter does not limit the authority of the board of trustees of a school district to grant a charter to a campus or program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.011 - Authorization And Status
  (a) In accordance with this subchapter, a school district may adopt a home-rule school district charter under which the district will operate. (b) The adoption ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.012 - Applicability Of Laws And Rules To Home-Rule School District
  (a) A home-rule school district is subject to federal and state laws and rules governing school districts, except that a home-rule school district is subject ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.013 - Applicability Of Title
  (a) A home-rule school district has the powers and entitlements granted to school districts and school district boards of trustees under this title, including taxing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.014 - Appointment Of Charter Commission
  The board of trustees of a school district shall appoint a charter commission to frame a home-rule school district charter if: (1) the board receives ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.015 - Charter Commission
  (a) Not later than the 30th day after the date of receipt of a petition or adoption of a resolution under Section 12.014, the board ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.016 - Content
  Each home-rule school district charter must: (1) describe the educational program to be offered; (2) provide that continuation of the home-rule school district charter is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.017 - Determination Of Compliance With Voting Rights Act
  (a) The charter commission shall submit the proposed charter to the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall determine whether a proposed charter contains ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.018 - Legal Review
  The charter commission shall submit the proposed charter to the commissioner. As soon as practicable, but not later than the 30th day after the date ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.019 - Charter Election
  (a) As soon as practicable after approval of a home-rule school district charter under Section 12.018, the board of trustees of the district shall order ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.020 - Charter Amendment
  (a) The governing body of a home-rule school district on its own motion may submit a proposed charter amendment that complies with this subchapter to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.021 - Adoption Of Charter Or Charter Amendment
  (a) Subject to Section 12.022, a proposed home-rule school district charter or a proposed charter amendment is adopted if approved by a majority of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.022 - Minimum Voter Turnout Required
  (a) An election on the adoption of a proposed home-rule school district charter has no effect unless at least 25 percent of the registered voters ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.023 - Certification Of Charter Or Charter Amendment
  (a) As soon as practicable after a school district adopts a home-rule school district charter or charter amendment, the president of the board of trustees ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.024 - Effect Of Recording Charter Or Charter Amendment
  A recorded charter or charter amendment is a public act. A court shall take judicial notice of a recorded charter or charter amendment and proof ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.025 - Governance
  (a) A home-rule school district may adopt and operate under any governing structure. (b) The district may: (1) create offices; (2) determine the time and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.026 - Change In Governing Body
  If the adoption, amendment, or revocation of a home-rule school district charter changes the structure of the governing body of the school district, the members ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.027 - Basis For Placement On Probation Or Revocation Of Charter
  (a) The State Board of Education may place on probation or revoke a home-rule school district charter of a school district if the board determines ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.028 - Procedure For Placement On Probation Or Revocation
  (a) The State Board of Education by rule shall adopt a procedure to be used for placing on probation or revoking a home-rule school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.029 - Status Of District In Case Of Annexation Or Consolidation
  (a) If a school district is annexed to another district under Chapter 13, and only one of the districts has a home-rule school district status, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.030 - Rescission Of Charter
  (a) A home-rule school district charter may be rescinded as provided by this section. (b) The governing body of the district shall order an election ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.051 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Parent" means the parent who is indicated on the student registration form at that school campus. (2) "Board" and "board of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.052 - Authorization
  (a) In accordance with this subchapter, the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a home-rule school district may grant ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.0521 - Alternative Authorization
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 12.052, in accordance with this subchapter and in the manner provided by this section, the board of trustees of a school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.053 - Cooperative Campus Charter
  (a) The board of trustees may grant a charter to parents and teachers at two or more campuses in the district for a cooperative charter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.054 - Authority Under Charter
  A campus or program for which a charter is granted under this subchapter: (1) is exempt from the instructional and academic rules and policies of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.055 - Applicability Of Laws And Rules To Campus Or Program Granted Charter
  A campus or program for which a charter is granted under this subchapter is subject to federal and state laws and rules governing public schools, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.056 - Applicability Of Title
  (a) A campus or program for which a charter is granted under this subchapter has the powers granted to schools under this title. (b) A ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.057 - Status
  (a) With respect to the operation of a campus or program granted a charter under this subchapter, the governing body of the campus or program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.058 - Charter Policy
  Each school district shall adopt a campus charter and program charter policy. The policy must specify: (1) the process to be followed for approval of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.059 - Content
  Each charter granted under this subchapter must: (1) describe the educational program to be offered, which may be a general or specialized program; (2) provide ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.060 - Form
  A charter shall be in the form and substance of a written contract signed by the president of the board of trustees granting the charter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.061 - Charter Granted
  Each charter a board of trustees grants under this subchapter must: (1) satisfy this subchapter; and (2) include the information that is required under Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.062 - Revision
  (a) A charter granted under Section 12.052 or 12.053 may be revised: (1) with the approval of the board of trustees that granted the charter; ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.063 - Basis For Placement On Probation Or Revocation
  (a) A board of trustees may place on probation or revoke a charter it grants if the board determines that the campus or program: (1) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.064 - Procedure For Placement On Probation Or Revocation
  (a) Each board of trustees that grants a charter under this subchapter shall adopt a procedure to be used for placing on probation or revoking ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.065 - Admission
  (a) Eligibility criteria for admission of students to the campus or program for which a charter is granted under this subchapter must give priority on ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.101 - Authorization
  (a) In accordance with this subchapter, the State Board of Education may grant a charter on the application of an eligible entity for an open-enrollment ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1012 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Charter holder" means the entity to which a charter is granted under this subchapter. (2) "Governing body of a charter holder" ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.102 - Authority Under Charter
  An open-enrollment charter school: (1) shall provide instruction to students at one or more elementary or secondary grade levels as provided by the charter; (2) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.103 - General Applicability Of Laws, Rules, And Ordinances To Open-Enrollment Charter School
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or (c), an open-enrollment charter school is subject to federal and state laws and rules governing public schools ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.104 - Applicability Of Title
  (a) An open-enrollment charter school has the powers granted to schools under this title. (b) An open-enrollment charter school is subject to: (1) a provision ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.105 - Status
  An open-enrollment charter school is part of the public school system of this state. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1051 - Applicability Of Open Meetings And Public Information Laws
  (a) With respect to the operation of an open-enrollment charter school, the governing body of a charter holder and the governing body of an open-enrollment ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1052 - Applicability Of Laws Relating To Local Government Records
  (a) With respect to the operation of an open-enrollment charter school, an open-enrollment charter school is considered to be a local government for purposes of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1053 - Applicability Of Laws Relating To Public Purchasing And Contracting
  (a) This section applies to an open-enrollment charter school unless the school's charter otherwise describes procedures for purchasing and contracting and the procedures are approved ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1054 - Applicability Of Laws Relating To Conflict Of Interest
  (a) A member of the governing body of a charter holder, a member of the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school, or an officer ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1055 - Applicability Of Nepotism Laws
  (a) An open-enrollment charter school is subject to a prohibition, restriction, or requirement, as applicable, imposed by state law or by a rule adopted under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1056 - Immunity From Liability
  In matters related to operation of an open-enrollment charter school, an open-enrollment charter school is immune from liability to the same extent as a school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1057 - Membership In Teacher Retirement System Of Texas
  (a) An employee of an open-enrollment charter school operating under a charter granted by the State Board of Education who qualifies for membership in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.106 - State Funding
  (a) A charter holder is entitled to receive for the open-enrollment charter school funding under Chapter 42 as if the school were a school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1061 - Recovery Of Certain Funds
  The commissioner may not garnish or otherwise recover funds paid to an open-enrollment charter school under Section 12.106 if: (1) the basis of the garnishment ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.107 - Status And Use Of Funds
  (a) Funds received under Section 12.106 after September 1, 2001, by a charter holder: (1) are considered to be public funds for all purposes under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1071 - Effect Of Accepting State Funding
  (a) A charter holder who accepts state funds under Section 12.106 after the effective date of a provision of this subchapter agrees to be subject ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.108 - Tuition And Fees Restricted
  (a) An open-enrollment charter school may not charge tuition to an eligible student who applies under Section 12.117. (b) The governing body of an open-enrollment ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.109 - Transportation
  An open-enrollment charter school shall provide transportation to each student attending the school to the same extent a school district is required by law to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.110 - Application
  (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt: (1) an application form and a procedure that must be used to apply for a charter for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1101 - Notification Of Charter Application
  The commissioner by rule shall adopt a procedure for providing notice to the following persons on receipt by the State Board of Education of an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.111 - Content
  (a) Each charter granted under this subchapter must: (1) describe the educational program to be offered, which must include the required curriculum as provided by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.112 - Form
  A charter for an open-enrollment charter school shall be in the form of a written contract signed by the chair of the State Board of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.113 - Charter Granted
  (a) Each charter the State Board of Education grants for an open-enrollment charter school must: (1) satisfy this subchapter; and (2) include the information that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.114 - Revision
  (a) A revision of a charter of an open- enrollment charter school may be made only with the approval of the commissioner. (b) Not more ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.115 - Basis For Modification, Placement On Probation, Revocation, Or Denial Of Renewal
  (a) The commissioner may modify, place on probation, revoke, or deny renewal of the charter of an open-enrollment charter school if the commissioner determines that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.116 - Procedure For Modification, Placement On Probation, Revocation, Or Denial Of Renewal
  (a) The commissioner shall adopt a procedure to be used for modifying, placing on probation, revoking, or denying renewal of the charter of an open-enrollment ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1161 - Effect Of Revocation, Denial Of Renewal, Or Surrender Of Charter
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), if the commissioner revokes or denies the renewal of a charter of an open-enrollment charter school, or if ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1162 - Additional Sanctions
  (a) The commissioner shall take any of the actions described by Subsection (b) or by Section 39.131(a), to the extent the commissioner determines necessary, if ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1163 - Audit By Commissioner
  (a) To the extent consistent with this section, the commissioner may audit the records of: (1) an open-enrollment charter school; (2) a charter holder; and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1164 - Notice To Teacher Retirement System Of Texas
  (a) The commissioner must notify the Teacher Retirement System of Texas in writing of the revocation, denial of renewal, or surrender of a charter under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.117 - Admission
  (a) For admission to an open-enrollment charter school, the governing body of the school shall: (1) require the applicant to complete and submit an application ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.1171 - Admission To Open-Enrollment Charter Schools Specializing In Performing Arts
  Notwithstanding Section 12.117, the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school that specializes in one or more performing arts may require an applicant to audition ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.118 - Evaluation Of Open-Enrollment Charter Schools
  (a) The commissioner shall designate an impartial organization with experience in evaluating school choice programs to conduct an annual evaluation of open-enrollment charter schools. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.119 - Bylaws; Annual Report
  (a) A charter holder shall file with the State Board of Education a copy of its articles of incorporation and bylaws, or comparable documents if ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.120 - Restrictions On Serving As Member Of Governing Body Of Charter Holder Or Open-Enrollment Charter School Or As Officer Or Employee
  (a) A person may not serve as a member of the governing body of a charter holder, as a member of the governing body of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.121 - Responsibility For Open-Enrollment Charter School
  The governing body of an open-enrollment charter school is responsible for the management, operation, and accountability of the school, regardless of whether the governing body ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.122 - Liability Of Members Of Governing Body Of Open-Enrollment Charter School
  (a) Notwithstanding the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) or other law, on request of the commissioner, the attorney ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.123 - Training For Members Of Governing Body Of School And Officers
  (a) The commissioner shall adopt rules prescribing training for: (1) members of governing bodies of open-enrollment charter schools; and (2) officers of open-enrollment charter schools. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.124 - Loans From Management Company Prohibited
  (a) The charter holder or the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school may not accept a loan from a management company that has a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.125 - Contract For Management Services
  Any contract, including a contract renewal, between an open-enrollment charter school and a management company proposing to provide management services to the school must require ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.126 - Certain Management Services Contracts Prohibited
  The commissioner may prohibit, deny renewal of, suspend, or revoke a contract between an open-enrollment charter school and a management company providing management services to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.127 - Liability Of Management Company
  (a) A management company that provides management services to an open-enrollment charter school is liable for damages incurred by the state as a result of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.128 - Property Purchased Or Leased With State Funds
  (a) Property purchased or leased with funds received by a charter holder under Section 12.106 after September 1, 2001: (1) is considered to be public ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.129 - Minimum Teacher Qualifications
  A person employed as a teacher by an open-enrollment charter school must hold a high school diploma. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1504, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.130 - Notice Of Teacher Qualifications
  Each open-enrollment charter school shall provide to the parent or guardian of each student enrolled in the school written notice of the qualifications of each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.131 - Removal Of Students To Disciplinary Alternative Education Program; Expulsion Of Students
  (a) The governing body of an open-enrollment charter school shall adopt a code of conduct for its district or for each campus. In addition to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.132 - Use Of Municipal Funds For Charter School Land Or Facilities
  A municipality to which a charter is granted under this subchapter may borrow funds, issue obligations, or otherwise spend its funds to acquire land or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.133 - Wage Increase For Certain Professional Staff
  (a) This section applies to a charter holder that on January 1, 2006, operated an open-enrollment charter school. (b) Each school year, using state funds ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.151 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "public senior college or university" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1504, § 19, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.152 - Authorization
  (a) In accordance with this subchapter and Subchapter D, the State Board of Education may grant a charter on the application of a public senior ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.153 - Rules
  The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1504, § 19, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.154 - Content
  Notwithstanding Section 12.110(d), the State Board of Education may grant a charter under this subchapter only if the following criteria are satisfied in the public ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.155 - School Name
  The name of a college or university charter school must include the name of the public senior college or university operating the school. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 12.156 - Applicability Of Certain Provisions
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, Subchapter D applies to a college or university charter school as though the college or university charter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.001 - Definition
  In this chapter, "membership" means the number of students enrolled in a school district as of a given date. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.002 - Permitted Frequency Of Proposed Actions
  (a) If at an election on a proposition under this chapter the majority of the votes are cast against the proposition, another election for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.003 - Petition And Election
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, this section governs: (1) the validity of a petition submitted to request an election under this chapter; ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.004 - Allocation Of Indebtedness And Personal Property
  (a) If under this chapter a school district assumes a portion of the indebtedness of another district, the commissioners court by order shall equitably allocate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.005 - Effective Date Of Transfer
  (a) Except as provided by this section or by a local consolidation agreement under Section 13.158, the annexation of all or part of the territory ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.006 - Taxing Authority Transfer
  (a) If all or part of the territory of a school district is annexed to another district, the receiving district may levy taxes at the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.007 - Boundary Changes Resulting In Appraisal District Changes
  (a) This section applies if all or part of territory annexed to a school district is in an appraisal district in which the receiving district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.008 - District Trustee Approval Of Boundary Changes Required
  Any change in the boundaries of a school district is not effective unless approved by a majority of the board of trustees of the district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.009 - Appeals
  (a) A decision of a commissioners court under this chapter may be appealed for a de novo review. (b) If this chapter requires the agreement ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.010 - Boundary Descriptions And Maps To Be Filed With Agency
  (a) Each school district shall file with the agency: (1) a complete and legally sufficient description of the boundaries of the district; (2) a map ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.051 - Detachment And Annexation Of Territory
  (a) In accordance with this section, territory may be detached from a school district and annexed to another school district that is contiguous to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.052 - Dormant School Districts
  (a) If the commissioner determines that a school district has failed to operate a school for a full school year, the commissioner shall report to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.053 - Territory Not In School District
  (a) All real property must be included within the limits of a school district. At any time it is determined that there is territory located ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.054 - Academically Unacceptable School Districts
  (a) The commissioner by order may annex to one or more adjoining districts a school district that has been rated as academically unacceptable for a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.101 - Creation Of District By Detaching Territory From Existing District
  (a) A new school district may be created by detaching territory from an existing school district or existing contiguous school districts and establishing a new ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.102 - Minimum Area And Attendance Requirements
  A new district may not be created with an area of less than nine square miles or fewer than 8,000 students in average daily attendance, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.103 - Initiation Of Detachment
  Creation of a new district by detachment is initiated by resolution of the board of trustees of each district from which territory is to be ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.104 - Election
  (a) Not later than the 30th day after the date the commissioners court receives a petition under this subchapter, the commissioners court shall hold a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.105 - Creation Of District
  (a) If all the requirements of this subchapter are met, the commissioners court shall enter an order creating the new school district. If the new ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.151 - Districts That May Consolidate
  (a) By the procedure provided by this subchapter, two or more school districts may consolidate into a single school district. (b) The consolidated district may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.152 - Resolution Or Petition
  Consolidation is initiated in each district proposed to be consolidated by either a resolution adopted by the board of trustees of the district or a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.153 - Election Order; Notice
  (a) Each board of trustees shall: (1) issue an order for an election to be held on the same day in each district included in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.154 - Canvass; Result
  (a) Each board of trustees shall canvass the returns of the election in its district and shall publish the results separately for each district. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.155 - Status; Governance
  (a) The consolidated district is an independent school district. (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) or by a local consolidation agreement under Section 13.158, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.156 - Title To Property; Assumption Of Debt
  Title to all property of the consolidating districts vests in the consolidated district, and the consolidated district assumes and is liable for the outstanding indebtedness ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.157 - Dissolution Of Consolidated School District
  (a) A consolidated school district may be dissolved by the same procedure provided for consolidation, except that it is not necessary to provide polling places ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.158 - Local Consolidation Agreement
  (a) Before issuing an order for an election under Section 13.153, the boards of trustees of the districts to be consolidated may draft a local ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.159 - Public Inspection And Hearing
  (a) A local consolidation agreement under Section 13.158 must be made available for public inspection during regular business hours at the central administration building of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.201 - Eligibility
  An independent school district may be abolished in the manner provided by this subchapter. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.202 - Petition
  Abolition of an independent school district is initiated by a petition requesting an election on the question. The petition must be signed by a majority ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.203 - Election
  (a) Each county judge receiving a valid petition shall: (1) issue an order for an election to be held on the same day in each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.204 - Order Abolishing District
  (a) The commissioners court of each county shall canvass the returns of the election in its county. (b) If a majority of the total votes ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.205 - Disposition Of Territory; Affairs Of Abolished District
  (a) The property and affairs of the abolished district are governed by this section unless otherwise controlled by the manner in which the district was ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.231 - Minor Boundary Adjustments By Agreement
  (a) Two contiguous school districts may adjust their common boundary by agreement if, at the time the agreement is executed: (1) no child who resides ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.281 - Incentive Aid
  (a) A school district created after August 22, 1963, through consolidation may qualify for incentive aid payments from the state. (b) A school district may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.282 - Amount; Computation
  (a) The amount of incentive aid payments may not exceed the difference between: (1) the sum of the entitlements computed under Section 42.253 that would ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.283 - Payments Reduced
  The incentive aid payments shall be reduced in direct proportion to any reduction in the average daily attendance as determined under Section 42.005 of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.284 - Conditions For Payment
  To receive incentive aid payments: (1) the geographical boundaries of the proposed district must be submitted to the agency for approval; and (2) the geographical ...
• Texas Education Code Section 13.285 - Cost
  The cost of incentive aid payments authorized by this subchapter shall be paid from the foundation school fund. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 18.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Job Corps diploma program" or "diploma program" means a public school high school diploma program established and operated under this chapter. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 18.002 - Establishment
  (a) A Job Corps training program may establish a high school diploma program to operate public secondary schools at Job Corps facilities throughout the state. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 18.003 - Authority
  A Job Corps diploma program may offer a secondary school curriculum, a high school diploma program, and a General Educational Development program. Added by Acts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 18.004 - Goals
  The goals of a Job Corps diploma program are to: (1) serve at-risk students who have not been successful in a traditional school setting; (2) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 18.005 - Governance; Limitation On Powers; Duties
  (a) A Job Corps diploma program shall be governed as provided by this chapter and policies established by the Job Corps training program operating the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 18.006 - Accountability
  (a) The commissioner shall develop and implement a system of accountability consistent with Chapter 39, where appropriate, to be used in assigning an annual performance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 18.007 - Eligibility For Certain Programs And Services
  (a) Any person enrolled in good standing in a Job Corps diploma program who is not a high school graduate is eligible for programs or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 18.008 - Grants And Federal Funds
  (a) A Job Corps diploma program may accept a grant from a public or private organization and may spend those funds to supplement programs and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 18.009 - Costs
  (a) A Job Corps training program shall pay the cost of operating its diploma program. (b) The operating costs of a program may not be ...
• Texas Education Code Section 18.010 - Program Employees
  (a) Job Corps diploma program employees are not considered employees of the state. (b) A diploma program may establish personnel policies as necessary to ensure ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. (2) "Department" means the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Added by Acts 1995, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.002 - Establishment
  The school district established by the Texas Board of Corrections in 1969 shall be known as the Windham School District, an entity that is separate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.003 - Goals Of The District
  The goals of the district in educating its students are to: (1) reduce recidivism; (2) reduce the cost of confinement or imprisonment; (3) increase the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.004 - Governance, Limitation On Powers, And Duties
  (a) The district shall be governed as provided by this chapter and policies established by the board. Unless otherwise specifically provided, a provision of this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.0041 - Evaluation Of Training Services
  (a) To evaluate the effectiveness of training services provided to persons confined or imprisoned in the department, the Windham School District shall consult with the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.005 - Eligibility For Certain Programs And Services
  (a) Any person confined or imprisoned in the department who is not a high school graduate is eligible for programs or services under this chapter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.006 - Grants And Federal Funds
  (a) The district may accept a grant from a public or private organization and may spend those funds to operate district programs and provide district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.007 - Costs To Be Borne By State
  (a) Except as authorized by Section 19.006 and this section, the state shall pay the cost of operating the district. (b) The costs for persons ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.008 - Allocation Of Costs
  (a) The commissioner shall allocate funds to the district from the foundation school fund based on an amount, established in the General Appropriations Act, for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.009 - District Employees
  (a) District employees are not considered employees of the state except as provided for in this section. The board may establish personnel policies as necessary ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.010 - Strategic Plan And Annual Report
  (a) The district shall propose, and the board shall adopt with any modification the board finds necessary, a strategic plan that includes: (1) a mission ...
• Texas Education Code Section 19.011 - Coordination With Other State Agencies
  (a) In order to achieve the goals stated in Section 19.003, the district with the cooperation of the Health and Human Services Commission, the Texas ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.001 - Definition
  In this chapter, "commissioner" includes a person designated by the commissioner. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.002 - Teacher Employment Contracts
  (a) A school district shall employ each classroom teacher, principal, librarian, nurse, or counselor under: (1) a probationary contract, as provided by Subchapter C; (2) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.003 - Certification Required
  (a) A person may not be employed as a teacher, teacher intern or teacher trainee, librarian, educational aide, administrator, or counselor by a school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.0031 - Failure To Obtain Certification; Contract Void
  (a) An employee's probationary, continuing, or term contract under this chapter is void if the employee: (1) does not hold a certificate or permit issued ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.004 - Teacher Recruitment Program
  (a) To the extent that funds are available, the agency, the State Board for Educator Certification, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall develop ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.005 - High-Quality Teachers
  The commissioner may by rule establish a statewide standard to be used to certify each school district that is preparing, training, and recruiting high-quality teachers ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.006 - Requirement To Report Misconduct
  (a) In this section, "abuse" has the meaning assigned by Section 261.001, Family Code, and includes any sexual conduct involving an educator and a student ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.031 - Purpose
  (a) The State Board for Educator Certification is established to recognize public school educators as professionals and to grant educators the authority to govern the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.032 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "board" means the State Board for Educator Certification. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.033 - State Board For Educator Certification
  (a) The State Board for Educator Certification is composed of 14 members. The commissioner of education shall appoint an employee of the agency to represent ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.034 - Terms; Vacancy
  (a) The board members appointed by the governor hold office for staggered terms of six years with the terms of one-third of the members expiring ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.035 - Application Of Sunset Act
  The Texas Education Agency shall provide the board's administrative functions and services. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.036 - Officers
  The board shall elect one of its members to serve as presiding officer for a term of two years. The presiding officer is entitled to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.037 - Compensation
  A board member may not receive compensation for serving on the board. A member is entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.038 - Meetings
  (a) The board shall meet at least once in each quarter of the calendar year. (b) The board may meet at other times at the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.040 - General Powers And Duties Of Board
  The board shall: (1) supervise the executive director's performance; (2) approve an operating budget for the board and make a request for appropriations; (3) appoint ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.041 - Rules; Fees
  (a) The board may adopt rules as necessary for its own procedures. (b) The board shall propose rules that: (1) provide for the regulation of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.042 - Approval Of Rules
  The State Board for Educator Certification must submit a written copy of each rule it proposes to adopt to the State Board of Education for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.043 - Access To Peims Data
  The agency shall provide the board with access to data obtained under the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS). Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.044 - Educator Preparation
  The board shall propose rules establishing the training requirements a person must accomplish to obtain a certificate, enter an internship, or enter an induction-year program. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.045 - Accountability System For Educator Preparation Programs
  (a) The board shall propose rules establishing standards to govern the approval and continuing accountability of all educator preparation programs based on information that is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.046 - Qualifications For Certification As Superintendent Or Principal
  (a) The qualifications for superintendent must permit a candidate for certification to substitute management training or experience for part of the educational experience. (b) The ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.047 - Centers For Professional Development Of Teachers
  (a) The board may develop the process for the establishment of centers for professional development through institutions of higher education for the purpose of integrating ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.048 - Certification Examinations
  (a) The board shall propose rules prescribing comprehensive examinations for each class of certificate issued by the board. (b) The board may not administer a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.0481 - Master Reading Teacher Certification
  (a) To ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to improve student reading performance, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.0482 - Master Mathematics Teacher Certification
  (a) To ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to improve student mathematics performance, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.0483 - Master Technology Teacher Certification
  (a) To ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to increase the use of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.0484 - Master Science Teacher Certification
  (a) To ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to improve student science performance, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.049 - Alternative Certification
  (a) To provide a continuing additional source of qualified educators, the board shall propose rules providing for educator certification programs as an alternative to traditional ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.050 - Academic Degree Required For Teaching Certificate; Internship
  (a) A person who applies for a teaching certificate for which board rules require a bachelor's degree must possess a bachelor's degree received with an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.051 - Options For Field Experience And Internships
  The board shall propose rules providing flexible options for persons for any field experience or internship required for certification. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.052 - Certification Of Educators From Outside The State
  (a) The board may issue a certificate to an educator who: (1) holds: (A) a degree issued by an institution accredited by a regional accrediting ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.053 - Presentation And Recording Of Certificates
  (a) A person who desires to teach in a public school shall present the person's certificate for filing with the employing district before the person's ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.054 - Continuing Education
  (a) The board shall propose rules establishing a process for identifying continuing education courses and programs that fulfill educators' continuing education requirements. (b) Continuing education ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.055 - School District Teaching Permit
  (a) As provided by this section, a school district may issue a school district teaching permit and employ as a teacher a person who does ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.056 - Additional Certification
  The board by rule shall provide for a certified educator to qualify for additional certification to teach at a grade level or in a subject ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.057 - Parental Notification
  (a) A school district that assigns an inappropriately certified or uncertified teacher to the same classroom for more than 30 consecutive instructional days during the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.058 - Revocation Of Certificate And Termination Of Employment Based On Conviction Of Certain Offenses
  (a) This section applies only: (1) to conviction of a felony offense under Title 5, Penal Code, or an offense on conviction of which a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.059 - Extension Of Certain Deadlines For Active Duty Military Personnel
  A person who holds a certificate or permit under this subchapter who is a member of the state military forces or a reserve component of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.101 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "teacher" means a principal, supervisor, classroom teacher, counselor, or other full-time professional employee who is required to hold a certificate issued under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.102 - Probationary Contract
  (a) Except as provided by Section 21.202(b), a person who is employed as a teacher by a school district for the first time, or who ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.103 - Probationary Contract: Termination
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district may terminate the employment of a teacher employed under a probationary contract at the end of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.104 - Discharge During Year Or Suspension Without Pay Under Probationary Contract
  (a) A teacher employed under a probationary contract may be discharged at any time for good cause as determined by the board of trustees, good ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.105 - Resignations Under Probationary Contract
  (a) A teacher employed under a probationary contract for the following school year may relinquish the position and leave the employment of the district at ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.106 - Return To Probationary Status
  (a) In lieu of discharging a teacher employed under a continuing contract, terminating a teacher employed under a term contract, or not renewing a teacher's ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.151 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "teacher" has the meaning assigned by Section 21.101. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.152 - Continuing Contract
  A continuing contract must be in writing and must include the terms of employment prescribed by this subchapter and any other appropriate provisions consistent with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.153 - Conversion Of Probationary Contract To Continuing Contract
  (a) A school district that employs a teacher under a probationary contract for the third or, if permitted, fourth consecutive year of service and that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.154 - Status Under Continuing Contract
  Each teacher employed under a continuing contract is entitled to continue in the teacher's position or a position with the school district for future school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.155 - Administrative Personnel Under Continuing Contract
  The district may grant to a person who has served as principal or in another administrative position for which certification is required, at the completion ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.156 - Discharge Or Suspension Without Pay Under Continuing Contract
  (a) A teacher employed under a continuing contract may be discharged at any time for good cause as determined by the board of trustees, good ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.157 - Necessary Reduction Of Personnel
  A teacher employed under a continuing contract may be released at the end of a school year and the teacher's employment with the school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.158 - Notice Under Continuing Contract
  (a) Before a teacher employed under a continuing contract may be discharged, suspended without pay, or released because of a necessary reduction of personnel, the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.159 - Hearing Under Continuing Contract
  (a) If the teacher desires to protest the proposed action under Section 21.156 or 21.157, the teacher must notify the board of trustees in writing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.160 - Resignation Under Continuing Contract
  (a) A teacher employed under a continuing contract may relinquish the position and leave the employment of the district at the end of a school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.201 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Teacher" means a superintendent, principal, supervisor, classroom teacher, counselor, or other full-time professional employee who is required to hold a certificate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.202 - Probationary Contract Required
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), before a teacher may be employed under a term contract, the teacher must be employed under a probationary ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.203 - Employment Policies
  (a) Except as provided by Section 21.352(c), the employment policies adopted by a board of trustees must require a written evaluation of each teacher at ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.204 - Term Contract
  (a) A term contract must be in writing and must include the terms of employment prescribed by this subchapter. (b) The board of trustees may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.205 - Term Of Contract
  Once a teacher has completed the probationary contract period, the term of a contract under this subchapter may not exceed five school years. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.206 - Notice Of Contract Renewal Or Nonrenewal
  (a) Not later than the 45th day before the last day of instruction in a school year, the board of trustees shall notify in writing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.207 - Hearing Under Term Contract
  (a) If the teacher desires a hearing after receiving notice of the proposed nonrenewal, the teacher shall notify the board of trustees in writing not ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.208 - Decision Of Board
  (a) If the teacher does not request a hearing, the board of trustees shall: (1) take the appropriate action to renew or not renew the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.209 - Appeal
  A teacher who is aggrieved by a decision of a board of trustees on the nonrenewal of the teacher's term contract may appeal to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.210 - Resignation Under Term Contract
  (a) A teacher employed under a term contract with a school district may relinquish the teaching position and leave the employment of the district at ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.211 - Termination Or Suspension
  (a) The board of trustees may terminate a term contract and discharge a teacher at any time for: (1) good cause as determined by the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.212 - Applicability Of Subchapter To Superintendents
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district may choose to not renew the employment of a superintendent employed under a term contract, effective ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.213 - Nonapplicability Of Subchapter
  Except as provided by Section 21.202, this subchapter does not apply to a teacher employed under a probationary contract in accordance with Subchapter C or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.251 - Applicability
  (a) This subchapter applies if a teacher requests a hearing after receiving notice of the proposed decision to: (1) terminate the teacher's continuing contract at ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.252 - Certification Of Hearing Examiners
  (a) The State Board of Education, in consultation with the State Office of Administrative Hearings, by rule shall establish criteria for the certification of hearing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.253 - Request For Hearing
  (a) A teacher must file a written request for a hearing under this subchapter with the commissioner not later than the 15th day after the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.254 - Assignment Of Hearing Examiner
  (a) The commissioner shall maintain a list of the names of all persons who have been certified as hearing examiners. The list shall be initially ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.255 - Hearings Before Hearing Examiner
  (a) The hearing examiner may issue subpoenas at the request of either party for the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents at the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.256 - Conduct Of Hearing
  (a) A hearing under this subchapter must be private unless the teacher requests in writing that the hearing be public, except that a hearing examiner ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.257 - Recommendation Of Hearing Examiner
  (a) Not later than the 60th day after the date on which the commissioner receives a teacher's written request for a hearing, the hearing examiner ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.258 - Consideration Of Recommendation By Board Of Trustees Or Board Subcommittee
  (a) The board of trustees or a subcommittee designated by the board shall consider the recommendation and record of the hearing examiner at the first ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.259 - Decision Of Board Of Trustees Or Board Subcommittee
  (a) Not later than the 10th day after the date of the board meeting under Section 21.258, the board of trustees or board subcommittee shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.260 - Recording Of Board Meeting And Announcement
  A certified shorthand reporter shall record the oral argument under Section 21.258 and the announcement of the decision under Section 21.259. The school district shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.301 - Appeal To Commissioner
  (a) Not later than the 20th day after the date the board of trustees or board subcommittee announces its decision under Section 21.259 or the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.302 - Evidentiary Hearing Before Commissioner
  (a) If a party alleges that procedural irregularities that are not reflected in the local record occurred at the hearing before the hearing examiner, the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.303 - Determination By Commissioner
  (a) If the board of trustees decided not to renew a teacher's term contract, the commissioner may not substitute the commissioner's judgment for that of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.304 - Decision Of Commissioner
  (a) The commissioner's decision must be in writing and must include findings of fact and conclusions of law. The commissioner may adopt by reference and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.3041 - Rehearing By Commissioner
  (a) Not later than the 20th day after the date the party or the party's representative receives notice of the commissioner's decision under Section 21.304, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.305 - Costs On Appeal To Commissioner
  (a) If a teacher appeals the decision of the board of trustees or board subcommittee, the school district shall bear the cost of preparing the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.306 - Ex Parte Communications Prohibited
  The commissioner and the staff of the agency may not communicate with any party or any party's representative in connection with any issue of fact ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.307 - Judicial Appeals
  (a) Either party may appeal the commissioner's decision to: (1) a district court in the county in which the district's central administrative offices are located; ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.351 - Recommended Appraisal Process And Performance Criteria
  (a) The commissioner shall adopt a recommended appraisal process and criteria on which to appraise the performance of teachers. The criteria must be based on ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.352 - Local Role
  (a) In appraising teachers, each school district shall use: (1) the appraisal process and performance criteria developed by the commissioner; or (2) an appraisal process ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.353 - Appraisal On Basis Of Classroom Teaching Performance
  A teacher who directs extracurricular activities in addition to performing classroom teaching duties shall be appraised only on the basis of classroom teaching performance and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.354 - Appraisal Of Administrators
  (a) The commissioner shall adopt a recommended appraisal process and criteria on which to appraise the performance of various classifications of school administrators. The criteria ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.355 - Confidentiality
  A document evaluating the performance of a teacher or administrator is confidential. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.356 - Evaluation Of School Counselors
  The commissioner shall develop and periodically update a job description and an evaluation form for use by school districts in evaluating school counselors. The commissioner ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.357 - Performance Incentives
  (a) The commissioner shall design an objective system to evaluate principals that: (1) is based on types of information available as of January 1, 1995, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.401 - Minimum Service Required
  (a) A contract between a school district and an educator must be for a minimum of 10 months' service. (a-1) to (a-4) Expired. (b) An ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.402 - Minimum Salary Schedule For Certain Professional Staff
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), (e), or (f), a school district must pay each classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time counselor certified under Subchapter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.403 - Placement On Minimum Salary Schedule
  (a) A teacher, librarian, counselor, or nurse shall advance one step on the minimum salary schedule under Section 21.402 for each year of experience as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.404 - Planning And Preparation Time
  Each classroom teacher is entitled to at least 450 minutes within each two-week period for instructional preparation, including parent-teacher conferences, evaluating students' work, and planning. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.405 - Duty-Free Lunch
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), each classroom teacher or full-time librarian is entitled to at least a 30-minute lunch period free from all ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.406 - Denial Of Compensation Based On Absence For Religious Observance Prohibited
  A school district may not deny an educator a salary bonus or similar compensation given in whole or in part on the basis of educator ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.407 - Requiring Or Coercing Teachers To Join Groups, Clubs, Committees, Or Organizations: Political Affairs
  (a) A school district board of trustees or school district employee may not directly or indirectly require or coerce any teacher to join any group, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.408 - Right To Join Or Not To Join Professional Association
  This chapter does not abridge the right of an educator to join any professional association or organization or refuse to join any professional association or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.409 - Leave Of Absence For Temporary Disability
  (a) Each full-time educator employed by a school district shall be given a leave of absence for temporary disability at any time the educator's condition ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.410 - Master Reading Teacher Grant Program
  (a) The commissioner shall establish a master reading teacher grant program to encourage teachers to: (1) become certified as master reading teachers; and (2) work ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.411 - Master Mathematics Teacher Grant Program
  (a) The commissioner shall establish a master mathematics teacher grant program to encourage teachers to: (1) become certified as master mathematics teachers; and (2) work ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.412 - Master Technology Teacher Grant Program
  (a) The commissioner shall establish a master technology teacher grant program to encourage teachers to: (1) become certified as master technology teachers; and (2) work ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.413 - Master Science Teacher Grant Program
  (a) The commissioner shall establish a master science teacher grant program to encourage teachers to: (1) become certified as master science teachers; and (2) work ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.414 - Classroom Supply Reimbursement Program
  (a) The commissioner shall establish a reimbursement program under which the commissioner provides funds to a school district for the purpose of reimbursing classroom teachers ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.415 - Employment Contracts
  (a) A school district shall provide in employment contracts that qualifying employees may receive an incentive payment under an awards program established under Subchapter N ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.451 - Staff Development Requirements
  (a) The staff development provided by a school district must be: (1) conducted in accordance with standards developed by the district; and (2) designed to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.452 - Developmental Leaves Of Absence
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district may grant a developmental leave of absence for study, research, travel, or another suitable purpose to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.453 - Staff Development Account
  (a) The staff development account is an account in the general revenue fund. The account consists of gifts, grants, donations, appropriations for the purpose of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.454 - Mathematics Training
  (a) The commissioner shall develop training materials and other teacher training resources for a school district to use in assisting mathematics teachers in developing: (1) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.455 - Professional Development Institutes In Mathematics
  (a) The commissioner shall develop and make available professional development institutes for teachers who provide instruction in mathematics to students at the fifth through eighth ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.456 - Science Training
  (a) The commissioner shall develop and have approved by the board training materials and other teacher training resources for a school district to use in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.457 - Training For Teachers Of Students Of Limited English Proficiency
  The commissioner shall develop and make available training materials and other teacher training resources to assist teachers in developing the expertise required to enable students ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.458 - Mentors
  (a) Each school district may assign a mentor teacher to each classroom teacher who has less than two years of teaching experience. A teacher assigned ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.501 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "program" means the Texas Troops to Teachers Program. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, § 2.07(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.502 - Establishment Of Program
  The agency shall establish a program to: (1) assist persons who have served in the armed forces of the United States and are separated from ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.503 - Eligibility
  A person is eligible for the program if the person: (1) has served in the armed forces of the United States; (2) is honorably discharged, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.504 - Information And Applications
  (a) The agency shall develop an application for the program. (b) The agency and the State Board for Educator Certification shall distribute the applications and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.505 - Selection Of Participants
  (a) The agency shall select persons to participate in the program on the basis of applications submitted to the agency. (b) Each application must be ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.506 - Limitation On Implementation
  The agency may not select a person to participate in the program unless the agency has sufficient state appropriations to pay the stipend provided by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.507 - Preferences
  (a) In selecting persons to participate in the program, the agency shall give preference to a person who: (1) has significant educational or military experience ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.508 - Agreement
  A person selected to participate in the program must enter into a written agreement with the agency under which the person agrees to: (1) obtain, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.509 - Stipend
  The agency shall pay to each participant in the program a stipend of $5,000. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, § 2.07(a), eff. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.510 - Reimbursement
  (a) A participant in the program who fails to obtain certification or employment as required in the agreement under Section 21.508 or who voluntarily leaves ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.511 - Rules
  The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement this subchapter. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, § 2.07(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.551 - Purposes
  The purposes of the alternative certification Teach for Texas Pilot Program are to: (1) attract to the teaching profession persons who have expressed interest in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.552 - Program Established
  The State Board for Educator Certification by rule shall establish the Teach for Texas Pilot Program consistent with the purposes provided by Section 21.551. Added ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.553 - Financial Incentives
  (a) The pilot program must offer to participants financial incentives, including tuition assistance and loan forgiveness. In offering a financial incentive, the State Board for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.601 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by 20 U.S.C. Section 1001 and its subsequent amendments. (2) "Program" means the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.602 - Establishment Of Program
  The agency shall establish a program to: (1) assist persons in obtaining certification in this state as elementary or secondary school teachers or educational aides; ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.603 - Eligibility
  A person is eligible for the program if: (1) in the case of a person planning to become certified in this state as a public ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.604 - Information And Applications
  (a) The agency shall develop an application for the program. (b) The agency and the State Board for Educator Certification shall distribute the applications and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.605 - Selection Of Participants
  (a) The agency shall select persons to participate in the program on the basis of applications submitted to the agency. (b) Each application must be ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.606 - Preferences
  (a) In selecting persons to participate in the program who are planning to become certified in this state as teachers, the agency shall give preference ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.607 - Agreement
  (a) A person selected to participate in the program who is planning to become certified as a teacher must enter into a written agreement with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.608 - Stipend
  The agency shall pay to each participant in the program a stipend equal to the lesser of: (1) $5,000; or (2) an amount equal to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.609 - Reimbursement
  (a) A participant in the program who fails to obtain certification or employment as required by the agreement under Section 21.607 or who voluntarily leaves ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.610 - Grants To Facilitate Placement
  (a) The agency may enter into an agreement as prescribed by Subsection (b) with a school district described by Section 21.602(2) that first employs as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.611 - Rules
  The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 808, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.651 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "program" means the awards for student achievement program. Added by Acts 2006, 79th Leg., 3rd C.S., ch. 5, § 4.08, eff. May ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.652 - Establishment Of Program
  (a) The commissioner by rule shall: (1) establish an awards for student achievement program under which an eligible campus may receive a grant from the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.653 - Campus Eligibility
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a campus is eligible to apply for and may receive a program grant if the campus: (1) is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.654 - Campus Incentive Plan
  (a) A campus-level decision-making body, such as the campus-level planning and decision-making committee established under Subchapter F, Chapter 11, for each eligible campus that intends ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.655 - Amount Of Program Grant Award
  (a) Each eligible campus whose campus incentive plan is approved by the agency under Section 21.654 is entitled to a grant award in an amount ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.656 - Incentive Payments To Classroom Teachers
  (a) An eligible campus must use 75 percent of a grant award received under Section 21.655 to provide incentive payments to classroom teachers assigned to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.657 - Distribution Of Other Program Funds
  (a) An eligible campus must use 25 percent of a grant award received under Section 21.655 to provide for: (1) incentive payments to campus employees ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.658 - Rules
  The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to administer this subchapter. Added by Acts 2006, 79th Leg., 3rd C.S., ch. 5, § 4.08, eff. May 26, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.701 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "program" means the educator excellence awards program. Added by Acts 2006, 79th Leg., 3rd C.S., ch. 5, § 4.08, eff. May 26, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.702 - Educator Excellence Awards Program
  (a) The commissioner by rule shall establish an educator excellence awards program under which school districts, in accordance with local awards plans approved by the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.703 - Educator Excellence Fund; Amount Of Grant Award
  (a) Each state fiscal year, the commissioner shall deposit the sum of $1,000 multiplied by the number of classroom teachers in this state to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.704 - Local Awards Plans
  (a) A district-level committee for a school district that intends to participate in the program, such as the district-level planning and decision-making committee established under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.705 - Award Payments
  A school district must use at least 60 percent of grant funds awarded to the district under this subchapter to directly award classroom teachers who ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.706 - Evaluation Of Awards For Student Achievement And Education Excellence Awards Programs
  Text of section effective until June 1, 2011 (a) Using funds from the educator excellence fund created under Section 21.703, the agency shall conduct or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 21.707 - Rules
  The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to administer this subchapter. Added by Acts 2006, 79th Leg., 3rd C.S., ch. 5, § 4.08, eff. May 26, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.001 - Salary Deductions For Professional Dues
  (a) A school district employee is entitled to have an amount deducted from the employee's salary for membership fees or dues to a professional organization. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.002 - Assignment, Transfer, Or Pledge Of Compensation
  (a) In this section, "school employee" means any person employed by a school district in an executive, administrative, or clerical capacity or as a superintendent, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.003 - Minimum Personal Leave Program
  (a) A state minimum personal leave program consisting of five days per year personal leave with no limit on accumulation and transferable among districts shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.004 - Group Health Benefits For School Employees
  (a) A district shall participate in the uniform group coverage program established under Chapter 1579, Insurance Code, as provided by Subchapter D of that chapter. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.005 - Health Care Plan And Fund
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district may establish a health care plan for employees of the district and dependents of employees. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.006 - Discrimination Based On Jury Service Prohibited
  (a) A school district may not discharge, discipline, reduce the salary of, or otherwise penalize or discriminate against a school district employee because of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.007 - Incentives For Early Retirement
  A district may not offer or provide a financial or other incentive to an employee of the district to encourage the employee to retire from ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.051 - Definition; Other Immunity
  (a) In this subchapter, "professional employee of a school district" includes: (1) a superintendent, principal, teacher, including a substitute teacher, supervisor, social worker, counselor, nurse, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.0511 - Immunity From Liability
  (a) A professional employee of a school district is not personally liable for any act that is incident to or within the scope of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.0512 - Immunity From Disciplinary Proceedings For Professional Employees
  (a) A professional employee of a school district may not be subject to disciplinary proceedings for the employee's use of physical force against a student ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.0513 - Notice Of Claim
  (a) Not later than the 90th day before the date a person files a suit against a professional employee of a school district, the person ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.0514 - Exhaustion Of Remedies
  A person may not file suit against a professional employee of a school district unless the person has exhausted the remedies provided by the school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.0515 - Limitation On Damages
  The liability of a professional employee of a school district or of an individual that is entitled to any immunity and other protections afforded under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.0516 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
  A court in which a judicial proceeding is being brought against a professional employee of a school district may refer the case to an alternative ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.0517 - Recovery Of Attorney's Fees In Action Against Professional Employee
  In an action against a professional employee of a school district involving an act that is incidental to or within the scope of duties of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.052 - Administration Of Medication By School District Employees Or Volunteer Professionals; Immunity From Liability
  (a) On the adoption of policies concerning the administration of medication to students by school district employees, the school district, its board of trustees, and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.053 - School District Volunteers
  (a) A volunteer who is serving as a direct service volunteer of a school district is immune from civil liability to the same extent as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.054 - Liability Of Certain Institutions Of Higher Education
  (a) A private or independent institution of higher education is not liable for damages arising from an act or omission of a person associated with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.055 - Frivolous Suit Against Employee
  A court may award costs and reasonable attorney's fees to a school district employee acting under color of employment to the same extent that a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.081 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "private school" means a school that: (1) offers a course of instruction for students in one or more grades from prekindergarten through ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.082 - Access To Criminal History Records By State Board For Educator Certification
  The State Board for Educator Certification shall obtain from any law enforcement or criminal justice agency all criminal history record information that relates to an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.083 - Access To Criminal History Records By Local And Regional Education Authorities
  (a) A school district, private school, regional education service center, or shared services arrangement may obtain from any law enforcement or criminal justice agency all ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.084 - Access To Criminal History Records Of School Bus Drivers, Bus Monitors, And Bus Aides
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d), a school district, open-enrollment charter school, private school, regional education service center, or shared services arrangement ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.085 - Discharge Of Employees Convicted Of Offenses
  A school district, open-enrollment charter school, private school, regional education service center, or shared services arrangement may discharge an employee if the district or school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.086 - Liability For Reporting Offenses
  The State Board for Educator Certification, a school district, an open-enrollment charter school, a private school, a regional education service center, a shared services arrangement, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.101 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Cafeteria plan" means a plan as defined and authorized by Section 125, Internal Revenue Code of 1986. (2) "Employee" means an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.102 - Authority To Adopt Rules; Other Authority
  (a) The agency may adopt rules to implement this subchapter. (b) The agency may enter into interagency contracts with any other agency of this state ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.103 - Designation Of Compensation As Health Care Supplementation
  (a) An employee of a school district, other educational district that is a member of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, participating charter school, or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.104 - Funds Held In Trust
  All funds received by a district, other educational district, participating charter school, or regional education service center under this subchapter are held in trust for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.105 - Written Election Required
  Each school year, an active employee must elect in writing whether to designate a portion of the employee's compensation to be used as health care ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.106 - Use Of Designated Compensation
  An employee may use compensation designated for health care supplementation under this subchapter for any employee benefit, including depositing the designated amount into a cafeteria ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.107 - Wage Increase For Support Staff
  (a) A school district shall pay each full-time district employee, other than an administrator or an employee subject to the minimum salary schedule under Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 22.901 - Unlawful Inquiry Into Religious Affiliation
  (a) A person employed or maintained to obtain or aid in obtaining positions for public school employees may not directly or indirectly ask about, orally ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.001 - Admission
  (a) A person who is at least five years of age and under 21 years of age on the first day of September of any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.0011 - Certain Incarcerated Children
  (a) For purposes of Section 25.001, a person is not considered to reside in a school district if: (1) the person is incarcerated in a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.002 - Requirements For Enrollment
  (a) If a parent or other person with legal control of a child under a court order enrolls the child in a public school, the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.0021 - Use Of Legal Surname
  In each public school a student must be identified by the student's legal surname as that name appears: (1) on the student's birth certificate or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.003 - Tuition For Certain Children From Other States
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a school district shall charge tuition for a child who resides at a residential facility and whose ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.004 - Tuition For Certain Military Dependents Prohibited
  A school district may not charge tuition for the attendance of a student who is domiciled in another state and resides in military housing that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.005 - Reciprocity Agreements Regarding Military Personnel And Dependents
  (a) To facilitate the transfer of military personnel and their dependents to and from the public schools of this state, the agency shall pursue reciprocity ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.006 - Transition Assistance For Military Dependents
  (a) The legislature finds that: (1) school-age dependents of military personnel are faced with numerous transitions during their formative years; and (2) military dependents who ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.031 - Assignments And Transfers In Discretion Of Governing Board
  In conformity with this subchapter, the board of trustees of a school district or the board of county school trustees or a school employee designated ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.032 - Basis For Assignment Or Transfer
  The board of trustees of a school district, the board of county school trustees, or the person acting for the board must make the decision ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.033 - Assignment Or Transfer On Petition Of Parent
  The parent or person standing in parental relation to any student may by petition in writing either: (1) request the assignment or transfer of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.034 - Hearing; Action On Petition; Appeal
  (a) On receiving a petition under Section 25.033, the board of trustees of the school district or the board of county school trustees shall: (1) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.0341 - Transfer Of Victims Of Bullying
  Text of section as added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 920, § 2 (a) In this section, "bullying" means engaging in written or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.0341 - Transfer Of Students Involved In Sexual Assault
  Text of section as added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 997, § 1 (a) This section applies only to: (1) a student: (A) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.0343 - Transfer Of Students Residing In Household Of Student Receiving Special Education Services
  (a) If, for the purpose of receiving special education services under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, a school district assigns a student to a district campus ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.035 - Transfers Between Districts Or Counties
  The boards of trustees of two or more adjoining school districts or the boards of county school trustees of two or more adjoining counties may, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.036 - Transfer Of Student
  (a) Any child, other than a high school graduate, who is younger than 21 years of age and eligible for enrollment on September 1 of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.037 - Transfer Of State Funds
  On the timely filing with the agency of notice of a child's transfer and certification by the agency of the transfer, the state available school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.038 - Tuition Fee For Transfer Students
  The receiving school district may charge a tuition fee to the extent that the district's actual expenditure per student in average daily attendance, as determined ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.039 - Contracts And Tuition For Education Outside District
  (a) A school district that does not offer each grade level from kindergarten through grade 12 may provide by contract for students residing in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.040 - Transfer To District Of Bordering State
  Any child entitled to attend the public school of any school district situated on the border of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, or New Mexico who finds ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.041 - Transfer Of Children Or Wards Of Employees Of State Schools
  A school-age child or ward of an employee of a state school for the mentally retarded constituted as a school district who resides in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.042 - Transfer Of Children Of Employees Of Texas Youth Commission Facilities
  A school-age child of an employee of a facility of the Texas Youth Commission is entitled to attend school in a school district adjacent to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.081 - Operation Of Schools
  (a) Except as authorized under Subsection (b) of this section, Section 25.084, or Section 29.0821, for each school year each school district must operate so ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.0811 - First Day Of Instruction
  (a) A school district may not begin instruction for students for a school year before the fourth Monday in August unless the district operates a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.082 - School Day; Pledges Of Allegiance; Minute Of Silence
  (a) A school day shall be at least seven hours each day, including intermissions and recesses. (b) The board of trustees of each school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.083 - School Day Interruptions
  The board of trustees of each school district shall adopt and strictly enforce a policy limiting interruptions of classes during the school day for nonacademic ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.084 - Year-Round System
  (a) A school district may operate its schools year-round on either a single-track or a multitrack calendar. If a school district adopts a year-round system, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.085 - Compulsory School Attendance
  (a) A child who is required to attend school under this section shall attend school each school day for the entire period the program of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.086 - Exemptions
  (a) A child is exempt from the requirements of compulsory school attendance if the child: (1) attends a private or parochial school that includes in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.087 - Excused Absences
  (a) A person required to attend school, including a person required to attend school under Section 25.085(e), may be excused for temporary absence resulting from ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.088 - School Attendance Officer
  The school attendance officer may be selected by: (1) the county school trustees of any county; (2) the board of trustees of any school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.089 - Compensation Of Attendance Officer; Dual Service
  (a) An attendance officer may be compensated from the funds of the county, independent school district, or open-enrollment charter school, as applicable. (b) An attendance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.090 - Attendance Officer Not Selected
  (a) In those counties and independent school districts where an attendance officer has not been selected, the duties of attendance officer shall be performed by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.091 - Powers And Duties Of Peace Officers And Other Attendance Officers
  (a) A peace officer serving as an attendance officer has the following powers and duties concerning enforcement of compulsory school attendance requirements: (1) to investigate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.092 - Minimum Attendance For Class Credit
  (a) Except as provided by this section, a student may not be given credit for a class unless the student is in attendance for at ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.093 - Parent Contributing To Nonattendance
  (a) If a warning is issued as required by Section 25.095(a), the parent with criminal negligence fails to require the child to attend school as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.094 - Failure To Attend School
  (a) An individual commits an offense if the individual: (1) is required to attend school under Section 25.085; and (2) fails to attend school on ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.095 - Warning Notices
  (a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school shall notify a student's parent in writing at the beginning of the school year that if the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.0951 - School District Complaint Or Referral For Failure To Attend School
  (a) If a student fails to attend school without excuse on 10 or more days or parts of days within a six-month period in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.0952 - Procedures Applicable To School Attendance-Related Offenses
  In a proceeding based on a complaint under Section 25.093 or 25.094, the court shall, except as otherwise provided by this chapter, use the procedures ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.111 - Student/Teacher Ratios
  Except as provided by Section 25.112, each school district must employ a sufficient number of teachers certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, to maintain an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.112 - Class Size
  (a) Except as otherwise authorized by this section, a school district may not enroll more than 22 students in a kindergarten, first, second, third, or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.113 - Notice Of Class Size
  (a) A campus or district that is granted an exception under Section 25.112(d) from class size limits shall provide written notice of the exception to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 25.901 - Exercise Of Constitutional Right To Pray
  A public school student has an absolute right to individually, voluntarily, and silently pray or meditate in school in a manner that does not disrupt ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.001 - Purpose
  (a) Parents are partners with educators, administrators, and school district boards of trustees in their children's education. Parents shall be encouraged to actively participate in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.002 - Definition
  In this chapter, "parent" includes a person standing in parental relation. The term does not include a person as to whom the parent-child relationship has ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.003 - Rights Concerning Academic Programs
  (a) A parent is entitled to: (1) petition the board of trustees designating the school in the district that the parent's child will attend, as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.004 - Access To Student Records
  A parent is entitled to access to all written records of a school district concerning the parent's child, including: (1) attendance records; (2) test scores; ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.005 - Access To State Assessments
  Except as provided by Section 39.023(e), a parent is entitled to access to a copy of each state assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023 to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.006 - Access To Teaching Materials
  (a) A parent is entitled to: (1) review all teaching materials, textbooks, and other teaching aids used in the classroom of the parent's child; and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.007 - Access To Board Meetings
  (a) A parent is entitled to complete access to any meeting of the board of trustees of the school district, other than a closed meeting ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.008 - Right To Full Information Concerning Student
  (a) A parent is entitled to full information regarding the school activities of a parent's child except as provided by Section 38.004. (b) An attempt ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.0081 - Right To Information Concerning Special Education And Education Of Students With Learning Difficulties
  (a) The agency shall produce and provide to school districts sufficient copies of a comprehensive, easily understood document that explains the process by which an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.0085 - Requests For Public Information
  (a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school that seeks to withhold information from a parent who has requested public information relating to the parent's ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.009 - Consent Required For Certain Activities
  (a) An employee of a school district must obtain the written consent of a child's parent before the employee may: (1) conduct a psychological examination, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.0091 - Refusal Of Psychiatric Or Psychological Treatment Of Child As Basis Of Report Of Neglect
  (a) In this section, "psychotropic drug" has the meaning assigned by Section 261.111, Family Code. (b) An employee of a school district may not use ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.010 - Exemption From Instruction
  (a) A parent is entitled to remove the parent's child temporarily from a class or other school activity that conflicts with the parent's religious or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.011 - Complaints
  The board of trustees of each school district shall adopt a grievance procedure under which the board shall address each complaint that the board receives ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.012 - Fee For Copies
  The agency or a school district may charge a reasonable fee in accordance with Subchapter F, Chapter 552, Government Code, for copies of materials provided ...
• Texas Education Code Section 26.013 - Student Directory Information
  (a) A school district shall provide to the parent of each district student at the beginning of each school year or on enrollment of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.001 - Purpose
  It is the intent of the legislature that the essential knowledge and skills developed by the State Board of Education under this subchapter shall require ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.002 - Required Curriculum
  (a) Each school district that offers kindergarten through grade 12 shall offer, as a required curriculum: (1) a foundation curriculum that includes: (A) English language ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.0021 - Personal Financial Literacy
  (a) The Texas essential knowledge and skills and Section 28.025 shall require instruction in personal financial literacy in one or more courses required for high ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.003 - Educational Program Access
  (a) If the parents or guardians of at least 22 students at a school request a transfer for the same school year to another school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.004 - Local School Health Advisory Council And Health Education Instruction
  (a) The board of trustees of each school district shall establish a local school health advisory council to assist the district in ensuring that local ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.005 - Language Of Instruction
  (a) Except as provided by this section, English shall be the basic language of instruction in public schools. (b) It is the policy of this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.0051 - Dual Language Immersion Program
  (a) A dual language immersion program should be designed to produce students with a demonstrated mastery, in both English and one other language, of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.006 - Reading Diagnosis
  (a) The commissioner shall develop recommendations for school districts for: (1) administering reading instruments to diagnose student reading development and comprehension; (2) training educators in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.007 - Mathematics Diagnosis
  (a) Using funds appropriated for the purpose, the commissioner shall develop and make available or contract for the development and dissemination of assessment instruments that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.008 - Advancement Of College Readiness In Curriculum
  (a) To ensure that students are able to perform college-level course work at institutions of higher education, the commissioner of education and the commissioner of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.009 - College Credit Program
  (a) Each school district shall implement a program under which students may earn the equivalent of at least 12 semester credit hours of college credit ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.021 - Student Advancement
  (a) A student may be promoted only on the basis of academic achievement or demonstrated proficiency of the subject matter of the course or grade ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.0211 - Satisfactory Performance On Assessment Instruments Required; Accelerated Instruction
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or (e), a student may not be promoted to: (1) the fourth grade program to which the student ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.0212 - Personal Graduation Plan
  (a) A principal shall designate a guidance counselor, teacher, or other appropriate individual to develop and administer a personal graduation plan for each student enrolled ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.0213 - Intensive Program Of Instruction
  (a) A school district shall offer an intensive program of instruction to a student who does not perform satisfactorily on an assessment instrument administered under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.0214 - Finality Of Grade
  (a) An examination or course grade issued by a classroom teacher is final and may not be changed unless the grade is arbitrary, erroneous, or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.022 - Notice To Parent Of Unsatisfactory Performance
  (a) The board of trustees of each school district shall adopt a policy that: (1) provides for a conference between parents and teachers; (2) requires ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.023 - Credit By Examination
  (a) Using guidelines established by the State Board of Education, a school district shall develop or select for board review examinations for acceleration for each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.024 - Credit For Enrollment In Certain Academies
  A school district shall grant to a student credit toward the academic course requirements for high school graduation, up to a maximum of two years ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.025 - High School Diploma And Certificate; Academic Achievement Record
  (a) The State Board of Education by rule shall determine curriculum requirements for the minimum, recommended, and advanced high school programs that are consistent with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.0251 - High School Diploma For Certain Veterans
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a school district may issue a high school diploma to a person who: (1) is an honorably ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.0252 - Computation Of High School Grade Point Average
  (a) The commissioner may develop a standard method of computing a student's high school grade point average that provides for additional weight to be given ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.026 - Notice Of Automatic College Admission
  The board of trustees of a school district shall require each high school in the district to post appropriate signs in each counselor's office, in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.051 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Board" means the State Board of Education. (2) "College advanced placement course" means a board-approved high-school-level preparatory course for a college ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.052 - Program; Purpose
  (a) The purpose of the Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program is to recognize and reward those students, teachers, and schools that demonstrate success in achieving ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.053 - Types Of Awards
  (a) A school participating in the program may be awarded: (1) a one-time $3,000 equipment grant for providing a college advanced placement course or international ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.054 - Subsidies For College Advanced Placement Test Or International Baccalaureate Examination
  (a) A student is entitled to a subsidy for a fee paid by the student to take a college advanced placement test or an international ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.055 - Use Of School Awards; Application
  (a) A school shall give priority to academic enhancement purposes in using an award received under the program. The award may not be used for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.056 - Application For Teacher Awards And Reimbursements
  To obtain an award or reimbursement for training expenses under the program, a teacher must submit to the board a written application in a form, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.057 - Funding
  (a) An award or subsidy granted under this subchapter may be funded by donations, grants, or legislative appropriations. The commissioner may solicit and receive grants ...
• Texas Education Code Section 28.058 - Confidentiality
  All information regarding an individual student received by the commissioner under this subchapter from a school district or student is confidential under Chapter 552, Government ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.001 - Statewide Plan
  The agency shall develop, and modify as necessary, a statewide design, consistent with federal law, for the delivery of services to children with disabilities in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.002 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "special services" means: (1) special education instruction, which may be provided by professional and supported by paraprofessional personnel in the regular classroom ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.003 - Eligibility Criteria
  (a) The agency shall develop specific eligibility criteria based on the general classifications established by this section with reference to contemporary diagnostic or evaluative terminologies ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.004 - Full Individual And Initial Evaluation
  (a) A written report of a full individual and initial evaluation of a student for purposes of special education services shall be completed not later ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.0041 - Information And Consent For Certain Psychological Examinations Or Tests
  (a) On request of a child's parent, before obtaining the parent's consent under 20 U.S.C. Section 1414 for the administration of any psychological examination or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.005 - Individualized Education Program
  (a) Before a child is enrolled in a special education program of a school district, the district shall establish a committee composed of the persons ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.0051 - Study Of Rule Concerning Content Of Individualized Education Program For Student With Pervasive Developmental Disorder
  Text of section effective until August 1, 2006 (a) The agency shall establish a committee composed of parents of students with autism or other pervasive ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.006 - Continuing Advisory Committee
  The governor shall appoint a continuing advisory committee, composed of 17 members, under 20 U.S.C. Section 1412(a)(21). The appointments are not subject to confirmation by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.007 - Shared Services Arrangements
  School districts may enter into a written contract to jointly operate their special education programs. The contract must be approved by the commissioner. Funds to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.008 - Contracts For Services; Residential Placement
  (a) A school district, shared services arrangement unit, or regional education service center may contract with a public or private facility, institution, or agency inside ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.009 - Public Notice Concerning Preschool Programs For Students With Disabilities
  Each school district shall develop a system to notify the population in the district with children who are at least three years of age but ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.010 - Compliance
  (a) The agency shall adopt and implement a comprehensive system for monitoring school district compliance with federal and state laws relating to special education. The ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.011 - Transition Planning
  The commissioner shall by rule adopt procedures for compliance with federal requirements relating to transition services for students who are enrolled in special education programs ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.012 - Residential Facilities
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b)(2), not later than the third day after the date a person 22 years of age or younger is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.013 - Noneducational Community-Based Support Services For Certain Students With Disabilities
  (a) The agency shall establish procedures and criteria for the allocation of funds appropriated under this section to school districts for the provision of noneducational ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.014 - School Districts That Provide Education Solely To Students Confined To Or Educated In Hospitals
  (a) This section applies only to a school district that provides education and related services only to students who are confined in or receive educational ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.015 - Foster Parents
  (a) The school district shall give preferential consideration to a foster parent of a child with a disability when assigning a surrogate parent for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.016 - Evaluation Conducted Pursuant To A Special Education Due Process Hearing
  A special education hearing officer in an impartial due process hearing brought under 20 U.S.C. Section 1415 may issue an order or decision that authorizes ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.0161 - Contract With State Office Of Administrative Hearings For Special Education Due Process Hearings
  Not later than December 1, 2003, the agency and the State Office of Administrative Hearings shall jointly determine whether it would be cost-effective for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.017 - Transfer Of Parental Rights At Age Of Majority
  (a) A student with a disability who is 18 years of age or older or whose disabilities of minority have been removed for general purposes ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.051 - State Policy
  English is the basic language of this state. Public schools are responsible for providing a full opportunity for all students to become competent in speaking, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.052 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Student of limited English proficiency" means a student whose primary language is other than English and whose English language skills are ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.053 - Establishment Of Bilingual Education And Special Language Programs
  (a) The agency shall establish a procedure for identifying school districts that are required to offer bilingual education and special language programs in accordance with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.054 - Exception
  (a) If a program other than bilingual education must be used in kindergarten through the elementary grades, documentation for the exception must be filed with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.055 - Program Content; Method Of Instruction
  (a) A bilingual education program established by a school district shall be a full-time program of dual-language instruction that provides for learning basic skills in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.056 - Enrollment Of Students In Program
  (a) The agency shall establish standardized criteria for the identification, assessment, and classification of students of limited English proficiency eligible for entry into the program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.0561 - Evaluation Of Transferred Students; Reenrollment
  (a) The language proficiency assessment committee shall reevaluate a student who is transferred out of a bilingual education or special language program under Section 29.056(g) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.057 - Facilities; Classes
  (a) Bilingual education and special language programs must be located in the regular public schools of the district rather than in separate facilities. (b) Students ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.058 - Enrollment Of Students Who Do Not Have Limited English Proficiency
  With the approval of the school district and a student's parents, a student who does not have limited English proficiency may also participate in a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.059 - Cooperation Among Districts
  (a) A school district may join with one or more other districts to provide the bilingual education and special language programs required by this subchapter. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.060 - Preschool, Summer School, And Extended Time Programs
  (a) Each school district that is required to offer a bilingual education or special language program shall offer a voluntary program for children of limited ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.061 - Bilingual Education And Special Language Program Teachers
  (a) The State Board for Educator Certification shall provide for the issuance of teaching certificates appropriate for bilingual education instruction to teachers who possess a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.062 - Compliance
  (a) The legislature recognizes that compliance with this subchapter is an imperative public necessity. Therefore, in accordance with the policy of the state, the agency ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.063 - Language Proficiency Assessment Committees
  (a) Each school district that is required to offer bilingual education and special language programs shall establish a language proficiency assessment committee. (b) Each committee ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.064 - Appeals
  A parent of a student enrolled in a school district offering bilingual education or special language programs may appeal to the commissioner if the district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.081 - Compensatory, Intensive, And Accelerated Instruction
  (a) Each school district shall use the student performance data resulting from the basic skills assessment instruments and achievement tests administered under Subchapter B, Chapter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.082 - Optional Extended Year Program
  (a) A school district may set aside an amount from the district's allotment under Section 42.152 or may apply to the agency for funding of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.0821 - Optional Flexible Year Program
  (a) A school district may provide a flexible year program for students who did not or are likely not to perform successfully on an assessment ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.0822 - Optional Flexible School Day Program
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 25.081 or 25.082, a school district may apply to the commissioner to provide a flexible school day program for students in grades ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.083 - Student Retention Information
  The agency shall collect data from school districts through the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) relating to grade level retention of students. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.084 - Tutorial Services
  (a) Each school district may provide tutorial services at the district's schools. (b) A district that provides tutorial services shall require a student whose grade ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.085 - Life Skills Program For Student Parents
  (a) A school district may provide an integrated program of educational and support services for students who are pregnant or who are parents. (b) The ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.086 - Basic Skills Programs For High School Students
  (a) A school district may apply to the commissioner for funding of special programs for students in grade nine who are at risk of not ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.087 - High School Equivalency Programs
  (a) The agency shall develop a process by which a school district or open-enrollment charter school may apply to the commissioner for authority to operate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.088 - After-School And Summer Intensive Mathematics Instruction Programs
  (a) A school district may provide an intensive after-school program or an intensive program during the period that school is recessed for the summer to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.089 - Mentoring Services Program
  (a) Each school district may provide a mentoring services program to students at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by Section 29.081. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.090 - After-School And Summer Intensive Science Instruction Programs
  (a) A school district may provide an intensive after-school program or an intensive program during the period that school is recessed for the summer to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.094 - Intensive Reading And Language Intervention Pilot Program
  Text of section effective until July 1, 2007 (a) In this section, "pilot program" means the intensive reading and language intervention pilot program. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.121 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "gifted and talented student" means a child or youth who performs at or shows the potential for performing at a remarkably high ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.122 - Establishment
  Using criteria established by the State Board of Education, each school district shall adopt a process for identifying and serving gifted and talented students in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.123 - State Plan; Assistance
  The State Board of Education shall develop and periodically update a state plan for the education of gifted and talented students to guide school districts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.124 - Texas Governor's Schools
  (a) In this section, "public senior college or university" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. (b) A Texas governor's school is a summer residential ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.151 - Free Kindergarten
  The board of trustees of each school district shall establish and maintain one or more kindergartens for the training of children residing in the district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.152 - Operation Of Kindergartens On Half-Day Or Full-Day Basis
  A public school kindergarten may be operated on a half-day or a full-day basis at the option of the board of trustees of the school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.153 - Free Prekindergarten For Certain Children
  (a) A district shall offer prekindergarten classes if the district identifies 15 or more children who are eligible under Subsection (b) and are at least ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.1531 - Tuition-Supported And District-Financed Prekindergarten
  (a) A school district may offer on a tuition basis or use district funds to provide: (1) an additional half-day of prekindergarten classes to children ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.1532 - Prekindergarten Program Requirements
  (a) A school district's prekindergarten program shall be designed to develop skills necessary for success in the regular public school curriculum, including language, mathematics, and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.1533 - Establishment Of New Prekindergarten Program
  Before establishing a new prekindergarten program, a school district shall consider the possibility of sharing use of an existing Head Start or other child-care program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.154 - Evaluation Of Prekindergarten Programs
  The commissioner of education, in consultation with the commissioner of human services, shall monitor and evaluate prekindergarten programs as to their developmental appropriateness. The commissioners ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.155 - Kindergarten And Prekindergarten Grants
  (a) From amounts appropriated for the purposes of this section, the commissioner may make grants to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to implement or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.156 - Grants For Educational Component Of Head Start
  (a) From funds appropriated for the purpose, the commissioner shall make grants for use in providing an educational component to federal Head Start programs or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.1561 - Administration Of Early Childhood Care And Education Programs
  (a) The commissioner may waive a law or rule relating to early childhood care and education programs: (1) to the extent that the law or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.157 - Ready To Read Grants
  (a) From funds appropriated for the purpose, the commissioner shall make grants as provided by this section in support of pre-reading instruction. (b) The commissioner ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.158 - Coordination Of Services
  (a) In a manner consistent with federal law and regulations, each prekindergarten program provider, Head Start and Early Head Start program provider, and provider of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.159 - Provision Of Certain Information
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, each provider of government-funded child-care services shall, at the time that a child is enrolled with the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.160 - Demonstration Projects
  (a) The State Center for Early Childhood Development, in conjunction with a school district, regional education service center, institution of higher education, local government, local ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.161 - School Readiness Certification System
  (a) The State Center for Early Childhood Development, in conjunction with the P-16 Council established under Section 61.077, shall develop and adopt a school readiness ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.181 - Public Education Career And Technology Education Goals
  Each public school student shall master the basic skills and knowledge necessary for: (1) managing the dual roles of family member and wage earner; and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.182 - State Plan For Career And Technology Education
  (a) The agency shall prepare and biennially update a state plan for career and technology education that sets forth objectives for career and technology education ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.183 - Career And Technology And Other Educational Programs
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district may conduct and supervise career and technology classes and other educational programs for students and for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.184 - Contracts With Other Schools For Career And Technology Classes
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district may contract with another school district or with a public or private postsecondary educational institution or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.185 - Career And Technology Program Rules
  The agency shall prescribe requirements for career and technology education in public schools as necessary to comply with federal law. Added by Acts 1995, 74th ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.186 - Pilot Project
  Text of section effective until August 31, 2007 (a) The Ector County Independent School District may conduct a pilot project for a career-targeted transition ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.187 - Award For Distinguished Achievement In Career And Technology Education; Program
  (a) In addition to the authority granted under Section 29.183, the board of trustees of a school district may develop and offer a program that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.188 - Recognition Of Successful Career And Technology Education Program
  The governor is encouraged to present a proclamation or certificate to each member of the business and industry community that the Texas Workforce Commission, in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.201 - Parental Choice
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, as provided by this subchapter an eligible student may attend a public school in the district in which ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.202 - Eligibility
  (a) A student is eligible to receive a public education grant or to attend another public school in the district in which the student resides ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.203 - Financing
  (a) A student who under this subchapter uses a public education grant to attend a public school in a school district other than the district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.204 - Notification
  (a) Not later than January 1 of each year the commissioner shall, based on the most recent information available, provide notice to each school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.205 - Contract Authority
  The board of trustees of a school district may contract under Section 11.157 for the provision of educational services to a district student eligible to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.251 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Adult education" means services and instruction provided below the college level for adults by public local education agencies, public nonprofit agencies, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.252 - State Role In Adult And Community Education
  (a) The agency shall: (1) provide adequate staffing to develop, administer, and support a comprehensive statewide adult education program and coordinate related federal and state ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.253 - Provision Of Adult Education Programs
  Adult education programs shall be provided by public school districts, public junior colleges, public universities, public nonprofit agencies, and community-based organizations approved in accordance with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.254 - Adult Education Advisory Committee
  The State Board of Education may establish an adult education advisory committee composed of not more than 21 members representing public and private education, business, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.255 - Funding
  (a) Funds shall be appropriated to implement statewide adult basic education, adult bilingual education, high school equivalency, and high school credit programs to eliminate illiteracy ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.256 - Reimbursement For Community Education Services
  (a) A school district whose governing board elects to provide community education for all age groups may on application and according to rules adopted by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.257 - Community Education Development Projects
  (a) The legislature may appropriate money from the foundation school fund to the agency for developing and implementing community education projects. The agency shall actively ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.301 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Admission, review, and dismissal committee" means the committee required by State Board of Education rules to develop the individualized education program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.302 - Findings
  (a) The legislature finds that it is essential for the well-being and growth of students who are deaf or hard of hearing that educational programs ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.303 - Unique Communication
  Students who are deaf or hard of hearing must have an education in which their unique communication mode is respected, used, and developed to an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.304 - Qualifications Of Personnel
  (a) A student who is deaf or hard of hearing must have an education in which teachers, psychologists, speech therapists, progress assessors, administrators, and others ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.305 - Language Mode Peers
  If practicable and not in conflict with any admission, review, and dismissal committee recommendations, a student who is deaf or hard of hearing must have ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.306 - Familial And Advocate Involvement
  A student who is deaf or hard of hearing must have an education in which the student's parents or legal guardians and advocates for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.307 - Role Models
  A student who is deaf or hard of hearing shall be given the opportunity to be exposed to deaf or hard-of-hearing role models. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.308 - Regional Programs
  Regional programs for students who are deaf or hard of hearing shall meet the unique communication needs of students who can benefit from those programs. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.309 - Composition Of Local Special Education Advisory Committee
  If practicable, in a school district in which there are students who are deaf or hard of hearing, the local special education advisory committee required ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.310 - Procedures And Materials For Assessment And Placement
  (a) Procedures and materials for assessment and placement of students who are deaf or hard of hearing shall be selected and administered so as not ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.311 - Educational Programs
  (a) Educational programs for students who are deaf or hard of hearing must be coordinated with other public and private agencies, including: (1) agencies operating ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.312 - Psychological Counseling Services
  Appropriate psychological counseling services for a student who is deaf or hard of hearing shall be made available at the student's school site in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.313 - Evaluation Of Programs
  Each school district must provide continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of programs of the district for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. If ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.314 - Transition Into Regular Class
  In addition to satisfying requirements of the admission, review, and dismissal committee and to satisfying requirements under state and federal law for vocational training, each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.315 - Texas School For The Deaf Memorandum Of Understanding
  The Texas Education Agency and the Texas School for the Deaf shall develop, agree to, and by commissioner rule adopt no later than September 1, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.901 - Military Instruction
  (a) In each school district in which military instruction is conducted under a state or federal law requiring the district to give bond or otherwise ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.902 - Driver Education
  (a) The agency shall develop a program of organized instruction in driver education and traffic safety for public school students. A student who will be ...
• Texas Education Code -
  § 29.903. CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR) INSTRUCTION; DONATIONS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS FOR USE IN CPR INSTRUCTION. (a) A school district that provides instruction to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.904 - Plan To Increase Enrollment In Institutions Of Higher Education
  (a) This section applies only to a school district with one or more high schools that: (1) during the preceding five years, have had an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.905 - Community Education Relating To Hate Crime Law
  (a) The attorney general, in cooperation with the agency, shall develop a program that provides instruction about state laws on hate crimes: (1) at appropriate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.906 - Character Education Program
  (a) A school district may provide a character education program. (b) A character education program under this section must: (1) stress positive character traits, such ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.907 - Celebrate Freedom Week
  (a) To educate students about the sacrifices made for freedom in the founding of this country and the values on which this country was founded, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.908 - Early College Education Program
  (a) The commissioner shall establish and administer an early college education program for students who are at risk of dropping out of school or who ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.909 - Electronic Courses
  (a) In this section, "electronic course" means an educational program or course: (1) that includes use of the Internet or other electronic media; and (2) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.910 - Programs Of Mutual Benefit
  (a) The commissioner, in coordination with appropriate representatives of institutions of higher education and school districts, shall develop: (1) a diagnostic and assistance program for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 29.915 - Financial Literacy Pilot Program
  (a) In this section, "program" means the financial literacy pilot program. (b) To the extent funding is available under Subsection (e), the agency by rule ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.001 - Coordination Of Services To Children With Disabilities
  (a) In this section, "children with disabilities" means students eligible to participate in a school district's special education program under Section 29.003. (b) The commissioner, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.0015 - Transfer Of Assistive Technology Devices
  (a) In this section: (1) "Assistive technology device" means any device, including equipment or a product system, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.002 - Education For Children With Visual Impairments
  (a) The agency shall develop and administer a comprehensive statewide plan for the education of children with visual impairments who are under 21 years of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.003 - Support Of Students Enrolled In Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired Or Texas School For The Deaf
  (a) For each student enrolled in the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the Texas School for the Deaf, the school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.004 - Information Concerning Programs
  (a) Each school district shall provide each parent or other person having lawful control of a student with written information about: (1) the availability of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.005 - Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired Memorandum Of Understanding
  The Texas Education Agency and the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired shall develop, agree to, and by commissioner rule adopt a memorandum ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.021 - Purpose Of Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired
  (a) The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a state agency established to serve as a special school in the continuum of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.022 - Governance Of The Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired
  (a) The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is governed by a nine-member board appointed by the governor in accordance with this section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.023 - Superintendent Of The Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired
  (a) The superintendent of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is appointed by the governing board of the school. (b) To be ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.024 - Employees Of The Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired
  (a) In this section, "teacher" means a principal, supervisor, classroom teacher, counselor, or other full-time professional employee who is required to hold a certificate issued ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.025 - Funding Of Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired
  The funding of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired consists of: (1) money the legislature specifically appropriates to the school; (2) money ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.027 - Lease Of Certain Property Of Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired
  (a) The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired may lease available real property on the school's campus located at 1100 West 45th Street, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.028 - Lease Of Certain Property Of Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired For A Day-Care Center
  (a) The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired may lease available building space on the school's campus located at 1100 West 45th Street, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.029 - Ann P. Silverrain Building
  The classroom building on the campus of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired formerly known as the Life Skills Building, located at ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.051 - Purpose Of Texas School For The Deaf
  (a) The Texas School for the Deaf is a state agency established to provide educational services to persons who are 21 years of age or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.052 - Governance Of The Texas School For The Deaf
  (a) The Texas School for the Deaf is governed by a nine-member board appointed by the governor in accordance with this section and confirmed by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.053 - Superintendent Of The Texas School For The Deaf
  (a) The superintendent of the Texas School for the Deaf is appointed by the governing board of the school. (b) The superintendent must: (1) hold ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.054 - Printing At The Texas School For The Deaf
  (a) In addition to any other area of curriculum the State Board of Education requires the Texas School for the Deaf to offer, the superintendent ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.055 - Employees Of The Texas School For The Deaf
  (a) In this section, "teacher" means a principal, supervisor, classroom teacher, counselor, or other full-time professional employee who is required to hold a certificate issued ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.056 - Funding Of The Texas School For The Deaf
  The funding of the Texas School for the Deaf consists of: (1) money the legislature specifically appropriates for the school; (2) money the agency allocates ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.057 - Admission To Texas School For The Deaf
  (a) The Texas School for the Deaf shall provide services in accordance with Section 30.051 to any eligible student with a disability for whom the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.059 - Lease Of Certain Property Of Texas School For The Deaf For A Day-Care Center
  (a) The Texas School for the Deaf may lease available building space on the school's campus located at 1102 South Congress, Austin, Travis County, to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.081 - Legislative Intent Concerning Regional Day Schools For The Deaf
  The legislature, by this subchapter, intends to continue a process of providing on a statewide basis a suitable education to deaf or hard of hearing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.082 - Director Of Services
  To carry out legislative intent and the objectives of Section 30.081, the agency shall employ a director of services to students who are deaf or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.083 - Statewide Plan
  (a) The director of services shall develop and administer a comprehensive statewide plan for educational services for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.084 - Establishment Of Programs
  The State Board of Education shall apportion the state into five regions and establish a regional day school program for the deaf in each region. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.085 - Use Of Local Resources
  Local resources shall be used to the fullest practicable extent in the establishment and operation of the regional day school programs for the deaf. Added ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.086 - Powers And Duties Of Agency
  (a) The agency shall contract with any qualified organization or individual for diagnostic, evaluative, or instructional services or any other services relating to the education ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.087 - Funding
  (a) The cost of educating students who are deaf or hard of hearing shall be borne by the state and paid from the foundation school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.101 - Purpose
  The purpose of this subchapter is to provide the state available school fund apportionment to children committed to the Texas Youth Commission. To provide the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.102 - Allocation
  (a) The Texas Youth Commission is entitled to receive the state available school fund apportionment based on the average daily attendance in the commission's educational ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.103 - Memorandum Of Understanding
  The Texas Youth Commission with the assistance of the Texas Workforce Commission and the Texas Workforce Investment Council shall by rule adopt a memorandum of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 30.104 - Credit For Completion Of Educational Programs; High School Diploma And Certificate
  (a) A school district shall grant to a student credit toward the academic course requirements for high school graduation for courses the student successfully completes ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.001 - Free Textbooks
  Textbooks selected for use in the public schools shall be furnished without cost to the students attending those schools. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.002 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Electronic textbook" means computer software, interactive videodisc, magnetic media, CD-ROM, computer courseware, on-line services, an electronic medium, or other means of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.003 - Rules
  The State Board of Education may adopt rules, consistent with this chapter, for the adoption, requisition, distribution, care, use, and disposal of textbooks. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.021 - State Textbook Fund
  (a) The state textbook fund consists of: (1) an amount set aside by the State Board of Education from the available school fund; (2) all ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.022 - Textbook Review And Adoption
  (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt a review and adoption cycle for textbooks for elementary grade levels, including prekindergarten, and secondary grade levels, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.023 - Textbook Lists
  (a) For each subject and grade level, the State Board of Education shall adopt two lists of textbooks. The conforming list includes each textbook submitted ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.024 - Adoption By State Board Of Education
  (a) By majority vote, the State Board of Education shall: (1) place each submitted textbook on a conforming or nonconforming list; or (2) reject a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.025 - Limitation On Cost
  (a) The State Board of Education shall set a limit on the cost that may be paid from the state textbook fund for a textbook ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.026 - Contract; Price
  (a) The State Board of Education shall execute a contract: (1) for the purchase of each adopted textbook other than an electronic textbook; and (2) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.027 - Information To School Districts; Sample Copies
  (a) A publisher shall provide each school district and open-enrollment charter school with information that fully describes each of the publisher's adopted textbooks. On request ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.028 - Special Textbooks
  (a) The State Board of Education may purchase special textbooks for the education of blind and visually impaired students in public schools. In addition, for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.029 - Bilingual Textbooks
  The board shall purchase or otherwise acquire textbooks for use in bilingual education classes. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.030 - Used Textbooks
  The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to ensure that used textbooks sold to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools are not sample copies ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.031 - Textbooks For Students Enrolled In Junior College Courses For Concurrent High School And Higher Education Academic Credit Under Pilot Project
  Text of section effective until August 15, 2009 (a) This section applies only if the pilot project established under Section 54.2161 is implemented. (b) From ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.101 - Selection And Purchase Of Textbooks By School Districts
  (a) Each year, during a period established by the State Board of Education, the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.102 - Title And Custody
  (a) Each textbook purchased as provided by this chapter is the property of this state. (b) Subsection (a) applies to an electronic textbook only to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.103 - Textbook Requisitions
  (a) Not later than the seventh day after the first school day in April, each principal shall report the maximum attendance for the school to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.1031 - Shortage Of Requisitioned Textbooks
  If a school district or open-enrollment charter school does not have a sufficient number of copies of a textbook used by the district or school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.104 - Distribution And Handling
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school may delegate to an employee the authority ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.105 - Sale Of Textbooks
  The board of trustees of a school district or governing body of an open-enrollment charter school may sell textbooks, other than electronic textbooks, to a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.106 - Use Of Local Funds
  In addition to any textbook selected under this chapter, a school district or open-enrollment charter school may use local funds to purchase any textbooks. Added ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.151 - Duties Of Publishers And Manufacturers
  (a) A publisher or manufacturer of textbooks: (1) shall furnish any textbook the publisher or manufacturer offers in this state, at a price that does ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.152 - Accepting Rebate On Textbooks
  (a) A school trustee, administrator, or teacher commits an offense if that person receives any commission or rebate on any textbooks used in the schools ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.153 - Violation Of Free Textbook Law
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly violates any law providing for the purchase or distribution of free textbooks for the public ...
• Texas Education Code Section 31.201 - Disposition Of Textbooks
  (a) The commissioner, with the approval of the State Board of Education, may provide for the disposition of: (1) textbooks, other than electronic textbooks, that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.001 - Development Of Long-Range Plan
  (a) The State Board of Education shall develop a long-range plan for: (1) acquiring and using technology in the public school system; (2) fostering professional ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.002 - Authority Of School District
  A school district is not required by this subchapter to acquire or use technology that has been approved, selected, or contracted for by the State ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.003 - Authority Of Commissioner To Contract
  The commissioner may contract with developers of technology to supply technology for use by school districts throughout this state. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.004 - Fees
  The State Board of Education, on the commissioner's recommendation, may establish a reasonable fee for services provided under this chapter. Added by Acts 1995, 74th ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.005 - Technology Allotment
  (a) Each school district is entitled to an allotment of $30 for each student in average daily attendance or a different amount for any year ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.031 - Purpose
  To prepare students for the 21st century, it is the policy of this state that a superior education should be available to all students under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.032 - Electronic Information System
  (a) The agency shall establish and maintain an accessible electronic information transfer system, as provided by State Board of Education policy, that is capable of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.033 - Integrated Telecommunications System
  (a) The agency, in coordination with institutions of higher education and other public or private entities, may maintain and expand, as needed, the telecommunications capabilities ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.034 - Center For Educational Technology
  (a) The commissioner, as provided by State Board of Education policy, may enter into an interagency contract with a public institution of higher education or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.035 - Demonstration Programs
  (a) The agency shall establish demonstration programs to: (1) investigate the uses, effectiveness, and feasibility of technologies for education; and (2) provide models for effective ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.036 - Preview Centers And Training Programs
  The agency may establish and provide for the operation of a technology preview center and training program in each regional education service center to assist ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.101 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "data processing" has the meaning assigned by Section 2054.003, Government Code. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1272, § 6.01, eff. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.102 - Authority
  (a) As provided by this subchapter, a school district or open-enrollment charter school may transfer to a student enrolled in the district or school: (1) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.103 - Eligibility; Preference
  (a) A student is eligible to receive data processing equipment under this subchapter only if the student does not otherwise have home access to data ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.104 - Requirements For Transfer
  Before transferring data processing equipment to a student, a school district or open-enrollment charter school must: (1) adopt rules governing transfers under this subchapter, including ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.105 - Expenditure Of Public Funds
  A school district or open-enrollment charter school may spend public funds to: (1) purchase, refurbish, or repair any data processing equipment transferred to a student ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.106 - Return Of Equipment
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a student who receives data processing equipment from a school district or open-enrollment charter school under this subchapter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.151 - Establishment Of Pilot Project
  Text of section effective until August 31, 2011 The agency may by rule establish the technology immersion pilot project to provide a wireless mobile ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.152 - Pilot Project Administration
  Text of section effective until August 31, 2011 If the agency establishes the pilot project under Section 32.151, the agency shall establish a procedure ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.153 - Pilot Project Funding
  Text of section effective until August 31, 2011 (a) To implement the pilot project, the agency may use any gift, grant, or donation given ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.154 - District Or School Selection
  Text of section effective until August 31, 2011 (a) A school district may apply to the agency for the establishment of a technology immersion ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.155 - Community Educational Pipeline Progress Team
  Text of section effective until August 31, 2011 (a) Each participating school district or school shall establish a community educational pipeline progress team to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.156 - Computer Retention
  Text of section effective until August 31, 2011 Each student participating in the pilot project may retain the wireless mobile computing device provided under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.157 - Pilot Project Evaluation; Expiration
  Text of section effective until August 31, 2011 (a) After the expiration of the pilot project, the agency may review the pilot project based ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.151 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "portal" means the education Internet portal required by this subchapter. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1216, § 16, eff. June ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.152 - Education Internet Portal; General Purposes
  (a) The agency, with assistance from the Department of Information Resources and with participation by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, interested school districts, and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.153 - Administration
  (a) The agency has responsibility for general administration and oversight of the portal and for approving the content of all information made available through the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.154 - On-Line Courses
  (a) The agency may coordinate the identification and development of on-line courses made available through the portal. A course may not be made available through ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.155 - On-Line Course Scholarships
  (a) Using funds available for that purpose, the agency may award a scholarship for the costs of an on-line course to a student who demonstrates ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.156 - On-Line Textbooks
  (a) The agency may develop and adopt strategies for making textbooks available through the portal or through other means in an electronic format as an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.157 - School District Administrative Software And Electronic Tools
  (a) The agency may: (1) identify effective Internet-based administrative software and other electronic tools that may be used by school districts to improve district administrative ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.158 - Student Assessment Data
  (a) The agency may establish a secure, interoperable system to be implemented through the portal under which school districts can readily access student assessment data ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.159 - Fees
  (a) The agency may charge school districts, teachers, parents, students, and other persons a reasonable fee for services or information provided through the portal. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.160 - Vendor Participation
  (a) The agency may seek proposals from private vendors for providing on-line courses or other materials or services through the portal in accordance with this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.161 - Funding
  (a) The agency may not use general revenue funds to pay the costs of developing, administering, and maintaining the portal. The agency may use amounts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.162 - Statewide Licensing And Contracting
  As appropriate to promote the availability through the portal of services and information specified by this subchapter at no cost to users or at a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.163 - Outreach And Training
  (a) The agency may conduct outreach activities to provide information regarding the portal to school districts, teachers, parents, and students. (b) The agency may provide ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.201 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Internet safety policy" means a policy that addresses: (A) measures designed to restrict access by minors to obscene material on the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 32.202 - Limitation On Certain Funds
  A public school that provides a computer used to access the Internet is not eligible for a loan or grant under Subchapter C, Chapter 57, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.002 - Certified Counselor
  (a) This section applies only to a school district that receives funds as provided by Section 42.152(i). (b) A school district with 500 or more ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.003 - Parental Consent
  The board of trustees of each school district shall adopt guidelines to ensure that written consent is obtained from the parent, legal guardian, or person ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.004 - Parental Involvement
  (a) Each school shall obtain, and keep as part of the student's permanent record, written consent of the parent or legal guardian as required under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.005 - Developmental Guidance And Counseling Programs
  A school counselor shall work with the school faculty and staff, students, parents, and the community to plan, implement, and evaluate a developmental guidance and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.006 - Counselors
  (a) The primary responsibility of a school counselor is to counsel students to fully develop each student's academic, career, personal, and social abilities. (b) In ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.007 - Counseling Regarding Higher Education
  (a) Each counselor at an elementary, middle, or junior high school, including an open-enrollment charter school offering those grades, shall advise students and their parents ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.021 - Library Standards
  The Texas State Library and Archives Commission, in consultation with the State Board of Education, shall adopt standards for school library services. A school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.022 - Contract With County Or Municipality
  (a) A school district may enter into contracts with a county or municipality in which the district is located to provide joint library facilities. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.051 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Child" and "minor" have the meanings assigned by Section 101.003, Family Code. (2) "Missing child" means a child whose whereabouts are ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.052 - Missing Child Prevention And Identification Programs
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district or of a private school may participate in missing child prevention and identification programs, including fingerprinting ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.053 - Fingerprints Of Children
  (a) A missing child prevention and identification program may include a procedure for taking the fingerprints of each student registered in the school whose parent ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.054 - Photographs Of Children
  (a) A participating school shall retain a current photograph of each child registered in the school whose parent or legal custodian has consented in writing. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.055 - Fingerprints And Photographs Not Used As Evidence
  (a) A child's fingerprint card made under Section 33.053 or a photograph of a child made or kept under Section 33.054 may not be used ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.056 - Liability For Nonperformance
  A person is not liable in any suit for damages for negligent performance or nonperformance of any requirement of this subchapter. Added by Acts 1995, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.057 - Destruction Of Fingerprints And Photographs
  The agency shall adopt rules relating to the destruction of fingerprints and photographs made or kept under this subchapter. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.081 - Extracurricular Activities
  (a) The State Board of Education by rule shall limit participation in and practice for extracurricular activities during the school day and the school week. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.0811 - School District Policy On Absences To Participate In Extracurricular Activities
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 33.081(a), the board of trustees of a school district may adopt a policy establishing the number of times a student who is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.0812 - Scheduling Extracurricular Activities Prohibited In Certain Circumstances
  (a) The State Board of Education by rule shall prohibit participation in a University Interscholastic League area, regional, or state competition: (1) on Monday through ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.082 - Extracurricular Activities; Use Of Discriminatory Athletic Club
  (a) An extracurricular activity sponsored or sanctioned by a school district, including an athletic event or an athletic team practice, may not take place at ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.083 - Interscholastic Leagues
  (a) The rules and procedures of an organization sanctioning or conducting interscholastic competition, including rules providing penalties for rules violations by school district personnel, must ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.084 - Interscholastic League Advisory Council
  (a) The interscholastic league advisory council is composed of: (1) two members of the State Board of Education appointed by the chair of the board; ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.085 - Insurance For Certain School Activities
  (a) In compliance with this section, the board of trustees of a school district may obtain insurance against bodily injuries sustained by students while training ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.086 - Certification In Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation And First Aid
  (a) A school district employee who serves as the head director of a school marching band or as the head coach or chief sponsor for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.091 - Prevention Of Illegal Steroid Use
  (a) In this section: (1) "League" means the University Interscholastic League. (2) "Parent" includes a guardian or other person standing in parental relation. (3) "Steroid" ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.151 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Department" means the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. (2) "Communities In Schools program" means an exemplary youth dropout prevention program. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.152 - Statewide Operation Of Program
  It is the intent of the legislature that the Communities In Schools program operate throughout this state. It is also the intent of the legislature ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.153 - State Director
  The commissioner shall designate a state director for the Communities In Schools program. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.154 - Duties Of State Director
  The state director shall: (1) coordinate the efforts of the Communities In Schools program with other social service organizations and agencies and with public school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.155 - Department Cooperation; Memorandum Of Understanding
  (a) The agency, the department, and Communities In Schools, Inc. shall work together to maximize the effectiveness of the Communities In Schools program. (b) The ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.156 - Funding; Expansion Of Participation
  (a) The agency shall develop and implement an equitable formula for the funding of local Communities In Schools programs. The formula may provide for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.157 - Participation In Program
  An elementary or secondary school receiving funding under Section 33.156 shall participate in a local Communities In Schools program if the number of students enrolled ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.158 - Donations To Program
  (a) The agency may accept a donation of services or money or other property that the agency determines furthers the lawful objectives of the agency ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.901 - Breakfast Programs
  If at least 10 percent of the students enrolled in one or more schools in a school district or enrolled in an open-enrollment charter school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.902 - Public School Child Care
  (a) In this section, "school-age students" means children enrolled as students in prekindergarten through grade 7. (b) Each school district that on September 1 of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 33.903 - Community Education Child Care Services
  (a) The agency shall establish a pilot program for the development of community education child care services as provided by this section. From the total ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.001 - Purchase Of Motor Vehicles
  (a) A school district may purchase school motor vehicles through the General Services Commission or through competitive bidding under Subchapter B, Chapter 44. (b) The ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.002 - Safety Standards
  (a) The Department of Public Safety, with the advice of the Texas Education Agency, shall establish safety standards for school buses used to transport students ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.003 - Operation Of School Buses
  (a) School buses or mass transit authority motor buses shall be used for the transportation of students to and from schools on routes having 10 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.004 - Standing Children
  A school district may not require or allow a child to stand on a school bus or passenger van that is in motion. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.005 - Financing
  (a) A school district financially unable to immediately pay for a school motor vehicle, including a bus, bus body, or bus chassis, the district purchases ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.006 - Sale Of Buses
  (a) At the request of a school district, the General Services Commission shall dispose of a school bus. (b) A school district is not required ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.007 - Public School Transportation System
  (a) A board of county school trustees or a school district board of trustees may establish and operate an economical public school transportation system in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.008 - Contract With Transit Authority Or Commercial Transportation Company
  (a) A board of county school trustees or school district board of trustees may contract with a mass transit authority or a commercial transportation company ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.009 - Contracts For Use, Acquisition, Or Lease Of School Bus
  (a) As an alternative to purchasing a school bus, a board of county school trustees or school district board of trustees may contract with any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.010 - Use Of School Buses For Extracurricular And Other School-Related Activities
  (a) A school district board of trustees or board of county school trustees governing a countywide transportation system may contract with nonschool organizations for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 34.011 - Appeals
  A policy decision of a board of county school trustees or board of trustees of a school district affecting transportation is final and may not ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.001 - Student Code Of Conduct
  (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district shall, with the advice of its district-level committee established under Subchapter F, Chapter 11, adopt ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.002 - Removal By Teacher
  (a) A teacher may send a student to the principal's office to maintain effective discipline in the classroom. The principal shall respond by employing appropriate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.0021 - Use Of Confinement, Restraint, Seclusion, And Time-Out
  (a) It is the policy of this state to treat with dignity and respect all students, including students with disabilities who receive special education services ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.003 - Placement Review Committee
  (a) Each school shall establish a three-member committee to determine placement of a student when a teacher refuses the return of a student to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.004 - Placement Of Students With Disabilities
  (a) The placement of a student with a disability who receives special education services may be made only by a duly constituted admission, review, and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.005 - Suspension
  (a) The principal or other appropriate administrator may suspend a student who engages in conduct identified in the student code of conduct adopted under Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.0051 - Placement Of Students Committing Sexual Assault Against Another Student
  (a) As provided by Section 25.0341(b)(2), a student shall be removed from class and placed in a disciplinary alternative education program under Section 37.008 or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.006 - Removal For Certain Conduct
  (a) A student shall be removed from class and placed in a disciplinary alternative education program as provided by Section 37.008 if the student: (1) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.0061 - Funding For Alternative Education Services In Juvenile Residential Facilities
  A school district that provides education services to pre-adjudicated and post-adjudicated students who are confined by court order in a juvenile residential facility operated by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.007 - Expulsion For Serious Offenses
  (a) A student shall be expelled from a school if the student, on school property or while attending a school-sponsored or school-related activity on or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.008 - Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs
  (a) Each school district shall provide a disciplinary alternative education program that: (1) is provided in a setting other than a student's regular classroom; (2) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.0081 - Placement Of Certain Students In Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the board of trustees of a school district, or the board's designee, after an opportunity for a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.009 - Conference; Hearing; Review
  (a) Not later than the third class day after the day on which a student is removed from class by the teacher under Section 37.002(b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.0091 - Notice To Noncustodial Parent
  (a) A noncustodial parent may request in writing that a school district or school, for the remainder of the school year in which the request ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.010 - Court Involvement
  (a) Not later than the second business day after the date a hearing is held under Section 37.009, the board of trustees of a school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.011 - Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program
  (a) The juvenile board of a county with a population greater than 125,000 shall develop a juvenile justice alternative education program, subject to the approval ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.012 - Funding Of Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Programs
  (a) Subject to Section 37.011(n), the school district in which a student is enrolled on the date the student is expelled for conduct for which ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.013 - Coordination Between School Districts And Juvenile Boards
  The board of trustees of the school district or the board's designee shall at the call of the president of the board of trustees regularly ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.014 - Court-Related Children--Liaison Officers
  Each school district shall appoint at least one educator to act as liaison officer for court-related children who are enrolled in the district. The liaison ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.015 - Reports To Local Law Enforcement; Liability
  (a) The principal of a public or private primary or secondary school, or a person designated by the principal under Subsection (d), shall notify any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.016 - Report Of Drug Offenses; Liability
  A teacher, school administrator, or school employee is not liable in civil damages for reporting to a school administrator or governmental authority, in the exercise ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.017 - Destruction Of Certain Records
  Information received by a school district under Article 15.27, Code of Criminal Procedure, may not be attached to the permanent academic file of the student ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.018 - Information For Educators
  Each school district shall provide each teacher and administrator with a copy of this subchapter and with a copy of the local policy relating to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.019 - Emergency Placement Or Expulsion
  (a) This subchapter does not prevent the principal or the principal's designee from ordering the immediate placement of a student in a disciplinary alternative education ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.020 - Reports Relating To Expulsions And Disciplinary Alternative Education Program Placements
  (a) In the manner required by the commissioner, each school district shall annually report to the commissioner the information required by this section. (b) For ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.021 - Opportunity To Complete Courses During In-School And Certain Other Placements
  (a) If a school district removes a student from the regular classroom and places the student in in-school suspension or another setting other than a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.022 - Notice Of Disciplinary Action
  (a) In this section: (1) "Disciplinary action" means a suspension, expulsion, placement in an alternative education program, or other limitation in enrollment eligibility of a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.051 - Establishment
  Each school district may establish a school-community guidance center designed to locate and assist children with problems that interfere with education, including juvenile offenders and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.052 - Cooperative Programs
  The board of trustees of a school district may develop cooperative programs with state youth agencies for children found to have engaged in delinquent conduct. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.053 - Cooperation Of Governmental Agencies
  (a) Each governmental agency that is concerned with children and that has jurisdiction in the school district shall cooperate with the school-community guidance centers on ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.054 - Parental Notice, Consent, And Access To Information
  (a) Before a student is admitted to a school-community guidance center, the administrator of the center must notify the student's parent or guardian that the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.055 - Parental Involvement
  (a) On admitting a student to a school-community guidance center, a representative of the school district, the student, and the student's parent shall develop an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.056 - Court Supervision
  (a) In this section, "court" means a juvenile court or alternate juvenile court designated under Chapter 51, Family Code. The court may delegate responsibility under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.081 - School District Peace Officers And Security Personnel
  (a) The board of trustees of any school district may employ security personnel and may commission peace officers to carry out this subchapter. If a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.082 - Possession Of Paging Devices
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district may adopt a policy prohibiting a student from possessing a paging device while on school property ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.083 - Discipline Management Programs; Sexual Harassment Policies
  (a) Each school district shall adopt and implement a discipline management program to be included in the district improvement plan under Section 11.252. The program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.084 - Interagency Sharing Of Records
  (a) A school district superintendent or the superintendent's designee may disclose information contained in a student's educational records to a juvenile justice agency, as that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.101 - Applicability Of Criminal Laws
  The criminal laws of the state apply in the areas under the control and jurisdiction of the board of trustees of any school district in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.102 - Rules; Penalty
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district may adopt rules for the safety and welfare of students, employees, and property and other rules ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.103 - Enforcement Of Rules
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the board of trustees of a school district may authorize any officer commissioned by the board to enforce ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.104 - Courts Having Jurisdiction
  The judge of a municipal court of a municipality in which, or any justice of the peace of a county in which, property under the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.105 - Unauthorized Persons: Refusal Of Entry, Ejection, Identification
  The board of trustees of a school district or its authorized representative may refuse to allow a person without legitimate business to enter on property ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.106 - Vehicle Identification Insignia
  The board of trustees of a school district may provide for the issuance and use of suitable vehicle identification insignia. The board may bar or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.107 - Trespass On School Grounds
  An unauthorized person who trespasses on the grounds of any school district of this state commits an offense. An offense under this section is a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.108 - Multihazard Emergency Operations Plan; Security Audit
  (a) Each school district shall adopt and implement a multihazard emergency operations plan for use in district schools. The plan must address mitigation, preparedness, response, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.121 - Fraternities, Sororities, Secret Societies, And Gangs
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) is a member of, pledges to become a member of, joins, or solicits another person ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.122 - Possession Of Intoxicants On Public School Grounds
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person possesses an intoxicating beverage for consumption, sale, or distribution while: (1) on the grounds or in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.123 - Disruptive Activities
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person, alone or in concert with others, intentionally engages in disruptive activity on the campus or property ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.124 - Disruption Of Classes
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person, on school property or on public property within 500 feet of school property, alone or in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.125 - Exhibition Of Firearms
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person, by exhibiting, using, or threatening to exhibit or use a firearm, interferes with the normal use ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.126 - Disruption Of Transportation
  (a) Except as provided by Section 37.125, a person commits an offense if the person intentionally disrupts, prevents, or interferes with the lawful transportation of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.151 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Educational institution" includes a public or private high school. (2) "Pledge" means any person who has been accepted by, is considering ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.152 - Personal Hazing Offense
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) engages in hazing; (2) solicits, encourages, directs, aids, or attempts to aid another in engaging ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.153 - Organization Hazing Offense
  (a) An organization commits an offense if the organization condones or encourages hazing or if an officer or any combination of members, pledges, or alumni ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.154 - Consent Not A Defense
  It is not a defense to prosecution of an offense under this subchapter that the person against whom the hazing was directed consented to or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.155 - Immunity From Prosecution Available
  In the prosecution of an offense under this subchapter, the court may grant immunity from prosecution for the offense to each person who is subpoenaed ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.156 - Offenses In Addition To Other Penal Provisions
  This subchapter does not affect or repeal any penal law of this state. This subchapter does not limit or affect the right of an educational ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.157 - Reporting By Medical Authorities
  A doctor or other medical practitioner who treats a student who may have been subjected to hazing activities: (1) may report the suspected hazing activities ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.201 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "center" means the Texas School Safety Center. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 923, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.202 - Purpose
  The purpose of the center is to serve as: (1) a central location for school safety information, including research, training, and technical assistance related to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.203 - Board
  (a) The center is advised by a board of directors composed of: (1) the attorney general, or the attorney general's designee; (2) the commissioner, or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.204 - Officers; Meetings; Compensation
  (a) The board shall annually elect from among its members a chairperson and a vice chairperson. (b) The board shall meet at least four times ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.205 - Safety Training Programs
  The center shall conduct for school districts a safety training program that includes: (1) development of a positive school environment and proactive safety measures designed ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.2051 - Security Criteria For Instructional Facilities
  The center shall develop security criteria that school districts may consider in the design of instructional facilities. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 780, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.207 - Model Safety And Security Audit Procedure
  The center shall develop a model safety and security audit procedure for use by school districts that includes: (1) providing each district with guidelines and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.208 - On-Site Assistance
  On request of a school district, the center may provide on-site technical assistance to the district for: (1) school safety and security audits; and (2) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.209 - Center Website
  The center shall develop and maintain an interactive Internet website that includes: (1) quarterly news updates related to school safety and violence prevention; (2) school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.210 - Essay Contest
  The center shall sponsor a student essay contest entitled "Charting the Course for School Safety." Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 923, § 1, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.211 - Recognition Of Schools
  The center shall provide for the public recognition of schools that implement effective school safety measures and violence prevention. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.212 - Interagency Cooperation
  The center shall promote cooperation between state agencies, institutions of higher education, and any local juvenile delinquency prevention councils to address discipline and safety issues ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.214 - Authority To Accept Certain Funds
  The center may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and donations from public and private entities to use for the purposes of this subchapter. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.215 - Budget
  (a) The board shall annually approve a budget for the center. (b) The center shall biannually prepare a budget request for submission to the legislature. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 37.216 - Annual Report
  (a) Not later than September 1 of each year, the board shall provide a report to the governor, the legislature, the State Board of Education, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.001 - Immunization; Requirements; Exceptions
  (a) Each student shall be fully immunized against diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, mumps, tetanus, and poliomyelitis, except as provided by Subsection (c). (b) Subject to Subsection ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.002 - Immunization Records; Reporting
  (a) Each public school shall keep an individual immunization record during the period of attendance for each student admitted. The records shall be open for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.0025 - Dissemination Of Bacterial Meningitis Information
  (a) The agency shall prescribe procedures by which each school district shall provide information relating to bacterial meningitis to its students and their parents each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.003 - Screening And Treatment For Dyslexia And Related Disorders
  (a) Students enrolling in public schools in this state shall be tested for dyslexia and related disorders at appropriate times in accordance with a program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.004 - Child Abuse Reporting And Programs
  (a) The agency shall develop a policy governing the child abuse reports required by Chapter 261, Family Code, of school districts and their employees. The ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.005 - Protective Eye Devices In Public Schools
  Each teacher and student must wear industrial-quality eye-protective devices in appropriate situations as determined by school district policy. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.006 - Tobacco On School Property
  The board of trustees of a school district shall: (1) prohibit smoking or using tobacco products at a school-related or school-sanctioned activity on or off ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.007 - Alcohol-Free School Zones
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district shall prohibit the use of alcoholic beverages at a school-related or school-sanctioned activity on or off ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.008 - Posting Of Steroid Law Notice
  Each school in a school district in which there is a grade level of seven or higher shall post in a conspicuous location in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.0081 - Information About Steroids
  (a) The agency, in conjunction with the Department of State Health Services, shall: (1) develop information about the use of anabolic steroids and the health ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.009 - Access To Medical Records
  (a) A school administrator, nurse, or teacher is entitled to access to a student's medical records maintained by the school district for reasons determined by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.0095 - Parental Access To Medical Records
  (a) A parent or guardian of a student is entitled to access to the student's medical records maintained by a school district. (b) On request ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.010 - Outside Counselors
  (a) A school district or school district employee may not refer a student to an outside counselor for care or treatment of a chemical dependency ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.011 - Dietary Supplements
  (a) A school district employee may not: (1) knowingly sell, market, or distribute a dietary supplement that contains performance enhancing compounds to a primary or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.012 - Notice Concerning Health Care Services
  (a) Before a school district or school may expand or change the health care services available at a school in the district from those that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.013 - Coordinated Health Program For Elementary, Middle, And Junior High School Students
  (a) The agency shall make available to each school district one or more coordinated health programs designed to prevent obesity, cardiovascular disease, and Type 2 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.014 - Implementation Of Coordinated Health Program For Elementary, Middle, And Junior High School Students
  (a) Each school district shall: (1) participate in appropriate training for the implementation of the program approved by the agency under Section 38.013; and (2) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.0141 - Reporting Of Certain Health And Safety Information Required
  Each school district shall provide to the agency information as required by the commissioner, including statistics and data, relating to student health and physical activity ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.015 - Self-Administration Of Prescription Asthma Or Anaphylaxis Medicine By Students
  (a) In this section: (1) "Parent" includes a person standing in parental relation. (2) "Self-administration of prescription asthma or anaphylaxis medicine" means a student's discretionary ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.016 - Psychotropic Drugs And Psychiatric Evaluations Or Examinations
  (a) In this section: (1) "Parent" includes a guardian or other person standing in parental relation. (2) "Psychotropic drug" means a substance that is: (A) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.051 - Establishment Of School-Based Health Centers
  (a) A school district in this state may, if the district identifies the need, design a model in accordance with this subchapter for the delivery ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.052 - Contract For Services
  A district may contract with a person to provide services at a school-based health center. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1418, § 1, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.053 - Parental Consent Required
  (a) A school-based health center may provide services to a student only if the district or the provider with whom the district contracts obtains the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.054 - Categories Of Services
  The permissible categories of services are: (1) family and home support; (2) health care, including immunizations; (3) dental health care; (4) health education; and (5) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.055 - Use Of Grant Funds For Reproductive Services Prohibited
  Reproductive services, counseling, or referrals may not be provided through a school-based health center using grant funds awarded under this subchapter. Added by Acts 1999, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.056 - Provision Of Certain Services By Licensed Health Care Provider Required
  Any service provided using grant funds awarded under this subchapter must be provided by an appropriate professional who is properly licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.057 - Identification Of Health-Related Concerns
  (a) The staff of a school-based health center and the person whose consent is obtained under Section 38.053 shall jointly identify any health-related concerns of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.058 - Health Education And Health Care Advisory Council
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district may establish and appoint members to a local health education and health care advisory council to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.059 - Assistance Of Public Health Agency
  (a) A school district may seek assistance in establishing and operating a school-based health center from any public health agency in the community. On request, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.060 - Coordination With Existing Providers In Certain Areas
  (a) This section applies only to a school-based health center serving an area that: (1) is located in a county with a population not greater ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.061 - Communication With Primary Care Physician
  (a) If a person receiving a medical service from a school-based health center has a primary care physician, the staff of the center shall provide ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.062 - Funding For Provision Of Services
  A school district or the provider with whom the district contracts shall seek all available sources of funding to compensate the district or provider for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.063 - Grants
  (a) Subject to the availability of federal or state appropriated funds, the commissioner of public health shall administer a program under which grants are awarded ...
• Texas Education Code Section 38.064 - Report To Legislature
  (a) Based on statistics obtained from every school-based health center in this state, the commissioner of public health shall issue an annual report to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.021 - Essential Skills And Knowledge
  The State Board of Education by rule shall establish the essential skills and knowledge that all students should learn to achieve the goals provided under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.022 - Assessment Program
  The State Board of Education by rule shall create and implement a statewide assessment program that is knowledge- and skills-based to ensure school accountability for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.023 - Adoption And Administration Of Instruments
  (a) The agency shall adopt or develop appropriate criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed to assess essential knowledge and skills in reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.0231 - Reporting Of Results Of Certain Assessments
  The agency shall ensure that each assessment instrument administered in accordance with Section 28.0211 is scored and that the results are returned to the appropriate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.0232 - Use Of End-Of-Course Assessment Instrument As Placement Instrument
  To the extent practicable, the agency shall ensure that any high school end-of-course assessment instrument developed by the agency is developed in such a manner ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.024 - Satisfactory Performance
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, the State Board of Education shall determine the level of performance considered to be satisfactory on the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.025 - Exit-Level Performance Required
  (a) A student may not receive a high school diploma until the student has performed satisfactorily on the secondary exit-level assessment instruments for English language ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.026 - Local Option
  In addition to the assessment instruments adopted by the agency and administered by the State Board of Education, a school district may adopt and administer ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.027 - Exemption
  (a) A student may be exempted from the administration of an assessment instrument under: (1) Section 39.023(a) or (b) if the student is eligible for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.028 - Comparison Of State Results To National Results
  The state assessment program shall obtain nationally comparative results for the subject areas and grade levels for which criterion-referenced assessment instruments are adopted under Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.029 - Migratory Children
  The State Board of Education by rule may provide alternate dates for the administration of the assessment instruments to a student who is a migratory ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.030 - Confidentiality; Performance Reports
  (a) In adopting academic skills assessment instruments under this subchapter, the State Board of Education or a school district shall ensure the security of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.031 - Cost
  (a) The cost of preparing, administering, or grading the assessment instruments shall be paid from the funds allotted under Section 42.152, and each district shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.032 - Assessment Instrument Standards; Civil Penalty
  (a) A company or organization may not distribute to, sell to, or grade for the same school district the same form of an assessment instrument ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.033 - Voluntary Assessment Of Private School Students
  (a) Under an agreement with the agency, a private school may administer an assessment instrument adopted under this subchapter to students at the school. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.034 - Measure Of Annual Improvement In Student Achievement
  (a) The commissioner shall determine a method by which the agency may measure annual improvement in student achievement from one school year to the next ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.051 - Academic Excellence Indicators
  (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt a set of indicators of the quality of learning on a campus. The State Board of Education ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.052 - Campus Report Card
  (a) Each school year, the agency shall prepare and distribute to each school district a report card for each campus. The campus report cards must ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.053 - Performance Report
  (a) Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report describing the educational performance of the district and of each campus in the district that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.054 - Uses Of Performance Report
  The information required to be reported under Section 39.053 shall be: (1) the subject of public hearings or meetings required under Sections 11.252, 11.253, and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.055 - Annual Audit Of Dropout Records; Report
  (a) The commissioner shall develop a process for auditing school district dropout records electronically. The commissioner shall also develop a system and standards for review ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.071 - Accreditation
  (a) Accreditation of a school district is determined in accordance with this section. The commissioner by rule shall define the following accreditation statuses: (1) accredited; ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.072 - Accreditation Standards
  (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to evaluate the performance of school districts and to assign to each district a performance rating ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.0721 - Gold Performance Rating Program
  (a) In addition to district and campus performance ratings reported under Section 39.072, the commissioner shall develop a gold performance rating program based on enhanced ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.073 - Determining Accreditation Status
  (a) The agency shall annually review the performance of each district and campus on the indicators adopted under Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8) and determine if ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.074 - On-Site Investigations
  (a) The commissioner may: (1) direct the agency to conduct on-site investigations at any time to answer any questions concerning a program, including special education, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.075 - Special Accreditation Investigations
  (a) The commissioner shall authorize special accreditation investigations to be conducted: (1) when excessive numbers of absences of students eligible to be tested on state ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.076 - Conduct Of Investigations
  (a) The agency shall adopt written procedures for conducting on-site investigations under this subchapter. The agency shall make the procedures available to the complainant, the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.091 - Creation Of System
  The Texas Successful Schools Awards System is created to recognize and reward those schools and school districts that demonstrate progress or success in achieving the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.092 - Types Of Awards
  (a) The governor may present a financial award to the schools or districts that the commissioner determines have demonstrated the highest levels of sustained success ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.093 - Awards
  (a) The criteria that the commissioner shall use to select successful schools and districts must be related to the goals in Section 4.002 and must ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.094 - Use Of Awards
  (a) In determining the use of a monetary award received under this subchapter, a school or district shall give priority to academic enhancement purposes. The ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.095 - Funding
  The award system may be funded by donations, grants, or legislative appropriations. The commissioner may solicit and receive grants and donations for the purpose of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.096 - Confidentiality
  All information and reports received by the commissioner under this subchapter from schools or school districts deemed confidential under Chapter 552, Government Code, are confidential ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.111 - Recognition And Rewards
  The State Board of Education shall develop a plan for recognizing and rewarding school districts and campuses that are rated as exemplary or recognized and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.112 - Excellence Exemptions
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a school campus or district that is rated exemplary is exempt from requirements and prohibitions imposed under this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.113 - Recognition Of High School Completion And Success And College Readiness Programs
  (a) The agency shall: (1) develop standards for evaluating the success and cost-effectiveness of high school completion and success and college readiness programs implemented under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.114 - High School Allotment
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a school district or campus must use funds allocated under Section 42.2516(b)(3) to: (1) implement or administer a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.131 - Sanctions For Districts
  (a) If a school district does not satisfy the accreditation criteria under Section 39.071, the academic performance standards under Section 39.072, or any financial accountability ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.132 - Sanctions For Academically Unacceptable And Certain Other Campuses
  If a campus performance is below any standard under Section 39.073(b), the campus is considered an academically unacceptable campus. The commissioner may permit the campus ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.1321 - Sanctions For Charter Schools
  (a) Sanctions authorized under this chapter for a school district or campus apply in the same manner to an open-enrollment charter school. (b) The commissioner ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.1322 - Technical Assistance And Campus Intervention Teams
  (a) If a campus is rated academically acceptable for the current school year but would be rated as academically unacceptable if performance standards to be ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.1323 - Campus Intervention Team Procedures
  (a) A campus intervention team shall: (1) conduct a comprehensive on-site evaluation of the campus to determine the cause for the campus's low performance and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.1324 - Mandatory Sanctions
  (a) If a campus has been identified as academically unacceptable for two consecutive school years, including the current school year, the commissioner shall order the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.1326 - Transitional Sanctions Provisions
  Text of section effective until September 1, 2008 For the 2006-2007 school year, the commissioner shall assign a campus intervention team or a technical ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.1327 - Management Of Certain Academically Unacceptable Campuses
  (a) A campus may be subject to this section if the campus has been identified as academically unacceptable under Section 39.132 and the commissioner orders ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.133 - Annual Review
  The commissioner shall review annually the performance of a district or campus subject to this subchapter to determine the appropriate actions to be implemented under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.1331 - Acquisition Of Professional Services
  In addition to other sanctions authorized under Sections 39.131 and 39.132, the commissioner may order a school district or campus to acquire professional services at ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.134 - Costs Paid By District
  The costs of providing a monitor, conservator, management team, campus intervention team, technical assistance team, managing entity under Section 39.1327, or service provider under Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.135 - Conservator Or Management Team
  (a) The commissioner shall clearly define the powers and duties of a conservator or management team appointed to oversee the operations of the district. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.136 - Board Of Managers
  (a) A board of managers may exercise all of the powers and duties assigned to a board of trustees of a school district by law, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.137 - Special Campus Intervention Team
  A special campus intervention team appointed under this subchapter may consist of teachers, principals, other educational professionals, and superintendents recognized for excellence in their roles ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.138 - Immunity From Civil Liability
  An employee, volunteer, or contractor acting on behalf of the commissioner under this subchapter is immune from civil liability to the same extent as a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.181 - General Requirements
  (a) Each report required by this subchapter must: (1) unless otherwise specified, contain summary information and analysis only, with an indication that the agency will ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.182 - Comprehensive Annual Report
  (a) Not later than December 1 of each year, the agency shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.183 - Regional And District Level Report
  The agency shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, each member of the legislature, the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.184 - Technology Report
  The agency shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, each member of the legislature, the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.185 - Interim Report
  Not later than December 1 of each odd-numbered year, the agency shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.201 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Parent" includes a guardian or other person having lawful control of a student. (2) "System" means the financial accountability rating system. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.202 - Development And Implementation
  (a) The commissioner shall, in consultation with the comptroller, develop and implement a financial accountability rating system for school districts in this state that: (1) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.203 - Reporting
  (a) The commissioner shall develop, as part of the system, a reporting procedure under which: (1) each school district is required to prepare and distribute ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.204 - Rules
  The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary for the implementation and administration of this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 914, § 1, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.251 - Notice In Student Grade Report
  The first written notice of a student's performance that a school district gives during a school year as required by Section 28.022(a)(2) must include the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.252 - Notice On District Website
  Not later than the 10th day after the first day of instruction of each school year, a school district that maintains an Internet website shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.301 - Review By Commissioner: Accountability Ratings
  (a) The commissioner by rule shall provide a process for a school district or open-enrollment charter school to challenge an agency decision made under this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 39.302 - Review By State Office Of Administrative Hearings: Sanctions
  (a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school that intends to challenge a decision by the commissioner under this chapter to close the district or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Equalized wealth level" means the wealth per student provided by Section 41.002. (2) "Wealth per student" means the taxable value of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.002 - Equalized Wealth Level
  (a) A school district may not have a wealth per student that exceeds: (1) the wealth per student that generates the amount of maintenance and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.003 - Options To Achieve Equalized Wealth Level
  A district with a wealth per student that exceeds the equalized wealth level may take any combination of the following actions to achieve the equalized ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.0031 - Inclusion Of Attendance Credits And Nonresidents In Weighted Average Daily Attendance
  In determining whether a school district has a wealth per student less than or equal to the equalized wealth level, the commissioner shall use: (1) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.004 - Annual Review Of Property Wealth
  (a) Not later than July 15 of each year, using the estimate of enrollment under Section 42.254, the commissioner shall review the wealth per student ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.005 - Comptroller And Appraisal District Cooperation
  The chief appraiser of each appraisal district and the comptroller shall cooperate with the commissioner and school districts in implementing this chapter. Added by Acts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.006 - Rules
  (a) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary for the implementation of this chapter. The rules may provide for the commissioner to make necessary adjustments to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.007 - Commissioner To Approve Subsequent Boundary Changes
  A school district that is involved in an action under this chapter that results in boundary changes to the district or in the consolidation of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.008 - Homestead Exemptions
  (a) The governing board of a school district that results from consolidation under this chapter, including a consolidated taxing district under Subchapter F, for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.009 - Tax Abatements
  (a) A tax abatement agreement executed by a school district that is involved in consolidation or in detachment and annexation of territory under this chapter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.010 - Tax Increment Obligations
  The payment of tax increments under Chapter 311, Tax Code, is not affected by the consolidation of territory or tax bases or by annexation under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.011 - Contingency
  (a) If any of the options described by Section 41.003 as applied to a school district are held invalid by a final decision of a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.012 - Date Of Elections
  An election under this chapter for voter approval of an agreement entered by the board of trustees shall be held on a Tuesday or Saturday ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.013 - Procedure
  (a) Except as provided by Subchapter G, a decision of the commissioner under this chapter is appealable under Section 7.057. (b) Any order of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.031 - Agreement
  The governing boards of any two or more school districts may consolidate the districts by agreement in accordance with this subchapter to establish a consolidated ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.032 - Governing Law
  Except to the extent modified by the terms of the agreement, the consolidated district is governed by the applicable provisions of Subchapter D, Chapter 13, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.033 - Governance Plan
  (a) The agreement among the consolidating districts may include a governance plan designed to preserve community-based and site-based decision making within the consolidated district, including ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.034 - Incentive Aid
  (a) For the first and second school years after creation of a consolidated district under this subchapter, the commissioner shall adjust allotments to the consolidated ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.061 - Agreement
  (a) By agreement of the governing boards of two school districts, territory may be detached from one of the districts and annexed to the other ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.062 - Governing Law
  Except to the extent of any conflict with this chapter and except for any requirement that detached property must be annexed to a school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.063 - Allocation Of Appraised Value Of Divided Unit
  If portions of a parcel or other item of property are located in different school districts as a result of a detachment and annexation under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.064 - Allocation Of Indebtedness
  The annexation agreement may allocate to the receiving district any portion of the indebtedness of the district from which the territory is detached, and the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.065 - Notice
  As soon as practicable after the agreement is executed, the districts involved shall notify each affected property owner and the appraisal district in which the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.091 - Agreement
  A school district with a wealth per student that exceeds the equalized wealth level may execute an agreement with the commissioner to purchase attendance credits ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.092 - Credit
  (a) For each credit purchased, the weighted average daily attendance of the purchasing school district is increased by one student in weighted average daily attendance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.093 - Cost
  (a) Subject to Subsection (b-1), the cost of each credit is an amount equal to the greater of: (1) the amount of the district's maintenance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.094 - Payment
  (a) A school district shall pay for credits purchased in equal monthly payments as determined by the commissioner beginning February 15 and ending August 15 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.095 - Duration
  An agreement under this section is valid for one school year and, subject to Section 41.096, may be renewed annually. Added by Acts 1995, 74th ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.096 - Voter Approval
  (a) After first executing an agreement under this section, the board of trustees shall order and conduct an election, in the manner provided by Sections ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.097 - Credit For Appraisal Costs
  (a) The total amount required under Section 41.093 for a district to purchase attendance credits under this subchapter for any school year is reduced by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.098 - Early Agreement Credit
  A district that submits a signed agreement under this subchapter to the commissioner before September 1 of the school year for which the agreement is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.099 - Limitation
  (a) Sections 41.002(e), 41.094, 41.097, and 41.098 apply only to a district that: (1) executes an agreement to purchase all attendance credits necessary to reduce ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.121 - Agreement
  The board of trustees of a district with a wealth per student that exceeds the equalized wealth level may execute an agreement to educate the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.122 - Voter Approval
  (a) After first executing an agreement under this subchapter other than an agreement under Section 41.125, the board of trustees of the district that will ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.123 - Wada Count
  For purposes of Chapter 42, students served under an agreement under this subchapter are counted only in the weighted average daily attendance of the district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.124 - Transfers
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district with a wealth per student that exceeds the equalized wealth level may reduce the district's wealth ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.125 - Career And Technology Education Programs
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district with a wealth per student that exceeds the equalized wealth level may reduce the district's wealth ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.151 - Agreement
  The board of trustees of two or more school districts may execute an agreement to conduct an election on the creation of a consolidated taxing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.152 - Date Of Election
  Any agreement under this subchapter must provide for the ordering of an election to be held on the same date in each district. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.153 - Proposition
  (a) The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "Creation of a consolidated taxing district composed of the territory of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.154 - Approval
  The proposition is approved only if the proposition receives a favorable vote of the majority of the votes cast within each participating school district. Added ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.155 - Consolidated Taxing District
  A consolidated taxing district is a school district established for the limited purpose of exercising the taxing power authorized by Section 3, Article VII, Texas ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.156 - Governance
  (a) The consolidated taxing district is governed by the boards of the component school districts acting jointly. (b) Any action taken by the joint board ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.157 - Maintenance Tax
  (a) The joint board shall levy a maintenance tax for the benefit of the component school districts not later than September 1 of each year ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.158 - Revenue Distribution
  The consolidated taxing district shall distribute maintenance tax revenue to the component districts on the basis of the number of students in weighted average daily ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.159 - Taxes Of Component Districts
  (a) The governing board of a component school district of a consolidated taxing district that has consolidated for maintenance and operation purposes only may issue ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.160 - Optional Total Tax Base Consolidation
  (a) An agreement executed under Section 41.151 may provide for total tax base consolidation instead of consolidation for maintenance and operation purposes only. (b) Under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.201 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "mineral property" means a real property mineral interest that has been severed from the surface estate by a mineral lease creating a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.202 - Determination Of Taxable Value
  (a) For purposes of this subchapter, the taxable value of an individual parcel or other item of property and the total taxable value of property ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.203 - Property Subject To Detachment And Annexation
  (a) Only the following property may be detached and annexed under this subchapter: (1) a mineral property; (2) real property used in the operation of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.204 - Taxation Of Personal Property
  Personal property having a taxable situs at the same location as real property detached and annexed under this subchapter is taxable by the school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.205 - Detachment Of Property
  (a) The commissioner shall detach property under this section from each school district from which the commissioner is required under Section 41.004 to detach property ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.206 - Annexation Of Property
  (a) The commissioner shall annex property detached under Section 41.205 to school districts eligible for annexation in accordance with this section. A school district is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.207 - Limitations On Detachment And Annexation
  The commissioner may detach and annex property under this subchapter only if: (1) the property is not exempt from ad valorem taxation under Section 11.20 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.208 - Orders And Notice
  (a) The commissioner shall order any detachments and annexations of property under this subchapter not later than November 8 of each year. (b) As soon ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.209 - Treatment Of Subdivided Property
  (a) If the commissioner orders the detachment or annexation of a portion of a parcel or item of property under this subchapter, the order shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.210 - Duties Of Chief Appraiser
  (a) The chief appraiser of each appraisal district shall cooperate with the commissioner in administering this subchapter. The commissioner may require the chief appraiser to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.211 - Student Attendance
  A student who is a resident of real property detached from a school district may choose to attend school in that district or in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.212 - Bond Taxes
  Property detached from a school district is released from the obligation for any tax to pay principal and interest on bonds authorized by the district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.213 - Determination By Commissioner Final
  A decision or determination of the commissioner under this subchapter is final and not appealable. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.251 - Commissioner Order
  If the commissioner is required under Section 41.004 to order the consolidation of districts, the consolidation is governed by this subchapter. The commissioner's order shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.252 - Selection Criteria
  (a) In selecting the districts to be consolidated with a district that has a property wealth greater than the equalized wealth level, the commissioner shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.253 - Governance
  (a) Until the initial trustees elected as provided by Subsection (b) have qualified and taken office, a district consolidated under this subchapter is governed by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.254 - Dissolution Of Consolidated District
  (a) If the legislature abolishes ad valorem taxes for public school maintenance and operations and adopts another method of funding public education, the board of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.255 - Fund Balances
  Fund balances of a school district consolidated under this subchapter may be used only for the benefit of the schools within the district that generated ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.256 - Employment Contracts
  A consolidated district created under this subchapter shall honor an employment contract entered into by a consolidating district. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 41.257 - Application Of Small And Sparse Adjustments And Transportation Allotment
  The budget of the consolidated district must apply the benefit of the adjustment or allotment to the schools of the consolidating district to which Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.001 - State Policy
  (a) It is the policy of this state that the provision of public education is a state responsibility and that a thorough and efficient system ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.002 - Purposes Of Foundation School Program
  (a) The purposes of the Foundation School Program set forth in this chapter are to guarantee that each school district in the state has: (1) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.003 - Student Eligibility
  (a) A student is entitled to the benefits of the Foundation School Program if the student is 5 years of age or older and under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.004 - Administration Of The Program
  The commissioner, in accordance with the rules of the State Board of Education, shall take such action and require such reports consistent with this chapter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.005 - Average Daily Attendance
  (a) In this chapter, average daily attendance is: (1) the quotient of the sum of attendance for each day of the minimum number of days ...
• Texas Education Code -
  § 42.006. PUBLIC EDUCATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (PEIMS). (a) Each school district shall participate in the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.007 - Equalized Funding Elements
  (a) The Legislative Budget Board shall adopt rules, subject to appropriate notice and opportunity for public comment, for the calculation for each year of a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.101 - Basic Allotment
  For each student in average daily attendance, not including the time students spend each day in special education programs in an instructional arrangement other than ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.102 - Cost Of Education Adjustment
  (a) The basic allotment for each district is adjusted to reflect the geographic variation in known resource costs and costs of education due to factors ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.103 - Small And Mid-Sized District Adjustment
  (a) The basic allotment for certain small and mid-sized districts is adjusted in accordance with this section. In this section: (1) "AA" is the district's ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.104 - Use Of Small Or Mid-Sized District Adjustment In Calculating Special Allotments
  In determining the amount of a special allotment under Subchapter C for a district to which Section 42.103 applies, a district's adjusted basic allotment is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.105 - Sparsity Adjustment
  Notwithstanding Sections 42.101, 42.102, and 42.103, a school district that has fewer than 130 students in average daily attendance shall be provided an adjusted basic ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.106 - Adjusted Property Value For Districts Not Offering All Grade Levels
  For purposes of this chapter, the taxable value of property of a school district that contracts for students residing in the district to be educated ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.151 - Special Education
  (a) For each student in average daily attendance in a special education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, in a mainstream instructional arrangement, a school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.152 - Compensatory Education Allotment
  (a) For each student who is educationally disadvantaged or who is a student who does not have a disability and resides in a residential placement ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.153 - Bilingual Education Allotment
  (a) For each student in average daily attendance in a bilingual education or special language program under Subchapter B, Chapter 29, a district is entitled ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.154 - Career And Technology Education Allotment
  (a) For each full-time equivalent student in average daily attendance in an approved career and technology education program in grades nine through 12 or in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.155 - Transportation Allotment
  (a) Each district or county operating a transportation system is entitled to allotments for transportation costs as provided by this section. (b) As used in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.156 - Gifted And Talented Student Allotment
  (a) For each identified student a school district serves in a program for gifted and talented students that the district certifies to the commissioner as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.157 - Public Education Grant Allotment
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), for each student in average daily attendance who is using a public education grant under Subchapter G, Chapter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.158 - New Instructional Facility Allotment
  (a) A school district is entitled to an additional allotment as provided by this section for operational expenses associated with opening a new instructional facility. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.251 - Financing; General Rule
  (a) The sum of the basic allotment under Subchapter B and the special allotments under Subchapter C, computed in accordance with this chapter, constitute the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.2511 - Additional State Aid For Homestead Exemption
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a school district is entitled to additional state aid to the extent that state aid under this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.2512 - Additional State Aid For Professional Staff Salaries
  (a) A school district, including a school district that is otherwise ineligible for state aid under this chapter, is entitled to state aid in an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.2513 - Additional State Aid For Staff Salary Increases
  (a) A school district, including a school district that is otherwise ineligible for state aid under this chapter, is entitled to state aid in an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.2514 - Additional State Aid For School Employee Benefits
  (a) In this section, "participating charter school" means an open-enrollment charter school that participates in the uniform group coverage program established under Article 3.50-7, Insurance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.2515 - Additional State Aid For Ad Valorem Tax Credits Under Texas Economic Development Act
  (a) For each school year, a school district, including a school district that is otherwise ineligible for state aid under this chapter, is entitled to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.2516 - Additional State Aid For Tax Reduction
  (a) In this section, "state compression percentage" means the percentage, as determined by the commissioner, of a school district's adopted maintenance and operations tax rate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.2517 - Excess Funds For Cost Of Education Adjustment
  (a) If the commissioner determines that the amount appropriated for purposes of the Foundation School Program exceeds the amount to which school districts are entitled ...
• Texas Education Code -
  § 42.252. LOCAL SHARE OF PROGRAM COST (TIER ONE). (a) Each school district's share of the Foundation School Program is determined by the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.2521 - Adjustment For Rapid Decline In Taxable Value Of Property
  (a) For purposes of Chapters 41 and 46 and this chapter, and to the extent money specifically authorized to be used under this section is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.2522 - Adjustment For Optional Homestead Exemption
  (a) In any school year, the commissioner may not provide funding under this chapter based on a school district's taxable value of property computed in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.253 - Distribution Of Foundation School Fund
  (a) For each school year the commissioner shall determine: (1) the amount of money to which a school district is entitled under Subchapters B and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.2531 - Adjustment By Commissioner
  (a) The commissioner may make adjustments to amounts due to a school district under this chapter or Chapter 46, or to amounts necessary for a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.254 - Estimates Required
  (a) Not later than October 1 of each even-numbered year: (1) the agency shall submit to the legislature an estimate of the tax rate and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.255 - Falsification Of Records; Report
  When, in the opinion of the agency's director of school audits, audits or reviews of accounting, enrollment, or other records of a school district reveal ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.257 - Effect Of Appraisal Appeal
  (a) If the final determination of an appeal under Chapter 42, Tax Code, results in a reduction in the taxable value of property that exceeds ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.258 - Recovery Of Overallocated Funds
  (a) If a school district has received an overallocation of state funds, the agency shall, by withholding from subsequent allocations of state funds or by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.259 - Foundation School Fund Transfers
  (a) In this section: (1) "Category 1 school district" means a school district having a wealth per student of less than one-half of the statewide ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.260 - Use Of Certain Funds
  (a) In this section, "participating charter school" has the meaning assigned by Section 42.2514. (b) For each year, the commissioner shall certify to each school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.261 - Certain Funds Appropriated For Purpose Of Tax Reduction
  (a) Funds appropriated by the legislature for a tax year for the purpose of reducing a school district's maintenance and operations tax rate and providing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.301 - Purpose
  The purpose of the guaranteed yield component of the Foundation School Program is to provide each school district with the opportunity to provide the basic ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.302 - Allotment
  (a) Each school district is guaranteed a specified amount per weighted student in state and local funds for each cent of tax effort over that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.303 - Limitation On Enrichment Tax Rate
  The district enrichment tax rate ("DTR") under Section 42.302 may not exceed the amount per $100 of valuation by which the maximum rate permitted under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.304 - Computation Of Aid For District On Military Reservation Or At State School
  State assistance under this subchapter for a school district located on a federal military installation or at Moody State School is computed using the average ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.352 - Standards
  The State Board of Education shall establish standards for adequacy of school facilities. The standards shall include requirements related to space, educational adequacy, and construction ...
• Texas Education Code Section 42.4101 - Additional Assistance For Districts With Students Using Public Education Grants
  (a) A district is entitled to additional assistance under this section as provided by Section 29.203(c). (b) The amount of additional assistance under this section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.001 - Composition Of Permanent School Fund And Available School Fund
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the permanent school fund, which is a perpetual endowment for the public schools of this state, consists of: ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.002 - Transfers From Permanent School Fund And General Revenue Fund To Available School Fund
  (a) On the first working day of each month in a state fiscal year, the comptroller shall transfer from the permanent school fund to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.003 - Investment Of Permanent School Fund
  In compliance with this section, the State Board of Education may invest the permanent school fund in the types of securities, which must be carefully ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.0031 - Permanent School Fund Ethics Policy
  (a) In addition to any other requirements provided by law, the State Board of Education shall adopt and enforce an ethics policy that provides standards ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.0032 - Conflicts Of Interest
  (a) A member of the State Board of Education, the commissioner, an employee of the agency, or a person who provides services to the board ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.0033 - Reports Of Expenditures
  A consultant, advisor, broker, or other person providing services to the State Board of Education relating to the management and investment of the permanent school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.0034 - Forms; Public Information
  (a) The board shall prescribe forms for: (1) statements of possible conflicts of interest and waivers of possible conflicts of interest under Section 43.0032; and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.004 - Written Investment Objectives; Performance Evaluation
  (a) The State Board of Education shall develop written investment objectives concerning the investment of the permanent school fund. The objectives may address desired rates ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.005 - External Investment Managers
  (a) The State Board of Education may contract with private professional investment managers to assist the board in making investments of the permanent school fund. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.006 - Investment Management
  (a) The State Board of Education may delegate investment authority and contract for the investment of the permanent school fund to the same extent as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.007 - Purchase And Sale Or Exchange Of Securities
  (a) The State Board of Education may authorize the purchase of all of the types of securities in which it is authorized by law to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.009 - Prepayment Of Certain Bonds Held By The Permanent School Fund
  (a) The State Board of Education may authorize the governing body of any political subdivision in this state to pay off and discharge, at any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.010 - Default Of School District Securities Held By The Permanent School Fund
  (a) If interest or principal has not been paid for two years or more on any bonds issued by any school district and held by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.011 - Authorized Refunding Of Defaulted School Bonds
  (a) In compliance with this section, the State Board of Education may revise, readjust, modify, refinance, or refund defaulted bonds issued by any school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.012 - Refunding Other Defaulted Obligations
  (a) Defaulted obligations, other than bonds of school districts as provided by Section 43.011, due the available school fund may be refinanced or refunded with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.013 - Jurisdiction
  The district courts of Travis County have jurisdiction of any suit on bonds or obligations belonging to the permanent school fund, or purchased therewith, concurrent ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.014 - Duties Of Comptroller
  (a) On or before July 1 of each year, the comptroller shall estimate the amount of the available school fund receivable from every source during ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.015 - Duties Of Comptroller
  (a) Not later than the 30th day before the first day of each regular session of the legislature and not later than the 10th day ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.016 - Use Of Available School Fund
  All available school funds shall be appropriated in each county for the education of its children. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.017 - Use Of Commercial Banks As Agents For Collection Of Income From Permanent School Fund Investments
  (a) The State Board of Education may contract with one or more commercial banks to receive payments of dividends and interest on securities in which ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.018 - Participation In Fully Secured Securities Loan Programs
  (a) The State Board of Education may contract with a commercial bank to serve both as a custodian of securities in which the state permanent ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.019 - Accounting Treatment Of Certain Exchanges
  The State Board of Education may account for the exchange of permanent school fund securities in a closely related sale and purchase transaction in a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 43.020 - Treatment Of Accrued Income
  All interest and dividends accruing from the investments of the permanent school fund shall be deposited to the credit of the available school fund in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.001 - Fiscal Guidelines
  (a) The commissioner shall establish advisory guidelines relating to the fiscal management of a school district. (b) The commissioner shall report annually to the State ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.0011 - Fiscal Year
  The fiscal year of a school district begins on July 1 or September 1 of each year, as determined by the board of trustees of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.002 - Preparation Of Budget
  (a) On or before a date set by the State Board of Education, the superintendent shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, a proposed budget ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.003 - Records And Reports
  The superintendent shall ensure that records are kept and that copies of all budgets, all forms, and all other reports are filed on behalf of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.004 - Notice Of Budget And Tax Rate Meeting; Budget Adoption
  (a) When the budget has been prepared under section 44.002, the president shall call a meeting of the board of trustees for the purpose of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.0041 - Publication Of Summary Of Proposed Budget
  (a) Concurrently with the publication of notice of the budget under Section 44.004, a school district shall post a summary of the proposed budget: (1) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.005 - Filing Of Adopted Budget
  On or before a date set by the State Board of Education, the budget must be filed with the agency according to the rules established ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.006 - Effect Of Adopted Budget; Amendments
  (a) Public funds of the school district may not be spent in any manner other than as provided for in the budget adopted by the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.0061 - Review Of Accounting System
  Text of section effective until January 2, 2007 (a) The commissioner shall contract with a qualified third-party contractor to conduct a comprehensive review of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.007 - Accounting System; Report
  (a) A standard school fiscal accounting system must be adopted and installed by the board of trustees of each school district. The accounting system must ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.0071 - Computation Of Instructional Expenditures Ratio And Instructional Employees Ratio
  (a) Each fiscal year, a school district shall compute and report to the commissioner: (1) the percentage of the district's total expenditures for the preceding ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.008 - Annual Audit; Report
  (a) The board of school trustees of each school district shall have its school district fiscal accounts audited annually at district expense by a certified ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.009 - Financial Reports To Commissioner Or Agency; Forms
  (a) All financial reports made by or for school districts or by their officers, agents, or employees, to the commissioner or to the agency, shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.010 - Review By Agency
  The budgets, fiscal reports, and audit reports filed with the agency shall be reviewed and analyzed by the staff of the agency to determine whether ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.011 - Spending Targets For District Expenditures
  (a) The commissioner shall annually establish and publish the proposed expenditures for each school district as determined by the commissioner based on an evaluation of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.031 - Purchasing Contracts
  (a) Except as provided by this subchapter, all school district contracts, except contracts for the purchase of produce or vehicle fuel, valued at $25,000 or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.0311 - Applicability To Junior College Districts
  (a) This subchapter applies to junior college districts. (b) For purposes of this subchapter, "board of trustees" includes the governing board of a junior college ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.0312 - Delegation
  (a) The board of trustees of the district may, as appropriate, delegate its authority under this subchapter regarding an action authorized or required by this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.0315 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Architect" means an individual registered as an architect under Chapter 1051, Occupations Code. (2) "Contractor" in the context of a contract ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.032 - Enforcement Of Purchase Procedures: Criminal Penalties; Removal; Ineligibility
  (a) In this section: (1) "Component purchases" means purchases of the component parts of an item that in normal purchasing practices would be purchased in ...
• Texas Education Code -
  § 44.033. PURCHASES OF PERSONAL PROPERTY VALUED BETWEEN $10,000 AND $25,000. (a) A school district shall purchase personal property as provided by this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.034 - Notification Of Criminal History Of Contractor
  (a) A person or business entity that enters into a contract with a school district must give advance notice to the district if the person ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.035 - Evaluation Of Bids And Proposals For Construction Services
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district that is considering a construction contract using a method specified by Section 44.031(a) must, before advertising, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.036 - Design-Build Contracts For Facilities
  (a) In this section: (1) "Design-build contract" means a single contract with a design-build firm for the design and construction of a facility. (2) "Design-build ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.037 - Contracts For Facilities: Construction Manager-Agent
  (a) A school district may use the construction manager-agent method for the construction, rehabilitation, alteration, or repair of a facility. In using that method and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.038 - Contracts For Facilities: Construction Manager-At-Risk
  (a) A school district may use the construction manager-at-risk method for the construction, rehabilitation, alteration, or repair of a facility. In using that method and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.039 - Selecting Contractor For Construction Services Through Competitive Sealed Proposals
  (a) In selecting a contractor for construction, rehabilitation, alteration, or repair services for a facility through competitive sealed proposals, a school district shall follow the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.040 - Selecting Contractor For Construction Services Through Competitive Bidding
  (a) Except to the extent prohibited by other law and to the extent consistent with this subchapter, a school district may use competitive bidding to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.041 - Job Order Contracts For Facilities Construction Or Repair
  (a) A school district may award job order contracts for the minor construction, repair, rehabilitation, or alteration of a facility if the work is of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.042 - Preference To Texas And United States Products
  (a) A school district that purchases agricultural products shall give preference to those produced, processed, or grown in this state if the cost to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.043 - Right To Work
  (a) This section applies to a school district while the school district is engaged in: (1) procuring goods or services; (2) awarding a contract; or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.044 - Contract With Person Indebted To School District
  (a) The board of trustees of a school district by resolution may establish regulations permitting the school district to refuse to enter into a contract ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.051 - Interference With Operation Of Foundation School Program
  An offense under Section 37.10, Penal Code, is a felony of the third degree if it is shown on trial of the offense that the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.052 - Failure To Comply With Budget Requirements; Penalty
  (a) Any county superintendent approving any expenditure of school funds in excess of the item or items appropriated in the adopted budget or a supplementary ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.053 - Failure Of Municipal Officer To Make Treasurer's Report; Penalty
  Any county or municipal treasurer or treasurer of the school board of each municipality having exclusive control of its schools who fails to make and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.054 - Failure To Transfer Students And Funds
  A county judge serving as ex officio county superintendent, a county, district, or municipal superintendent, or a school officer who refuses to transfer students and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 44.901 - Energy Savings Performance Contracts
  (a) In this section, "energy savings performance contract" means a contract for energy or water conservation measures to reduce energy or water consumption or operating ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.001 - Bonds And Bond Taxes
  (a) The governing board of an independent school district, including the city council or commission that has jurisdiction over a municipally controlled independent school district, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.0011 - Credit Agreements In Certain School Districts
  (a) This section applies only to an independent school district that, at the time of the issuance of obligations and execution of credit agreements under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.002 - Maintenance Taxes
  The governing board of an independent school district, including the city council or commission that has jurisdiction over a municipally controlled independent school district, the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.003 - Bond And Tax Elections
  (a) Bonds described by Section 45.001 may not be issued and taxes described by Section 45.001 or 45.002 may not be levied unless authorized by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.0031 - Limitation On Issuance Of Tax-Supported Bonds
  (a) Before issuing bonds described by Section 45.001, a school district must demonstrate to the attorney general under Subsection (b) or (c) that, with respect ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.004 - Refunding Bonds
  (a) In this section: (1) "Bond" includes a note or other evidence of indebtedness. (2) "Total debt service" means the amount of principal and unpaid ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.005 - Examination Of Bonds By Attorney General
  All bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter, and the appropriate proceedings authorizing their issuance, shall be submitted to the attorney general for examination. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.006 - Maintenance Tax Required For Judgment Ordering Ad Valorem Tax Refund; Bonds
  (a) This section applies only to a school district that: (1) has an average daily attendance of less than 10,000; and (2) is located in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.031 - Gymnasia, Stadia, And Other Recreational Facilities
  The governing board of an independent school district, including the city council or commission that has jurisdiction over a municipally controlled independent school district, the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.032 - Revenue Bonds
  To provide funds to acquire, construct, improve, or equip gymnasia, stadia, or other recreational facilities, the board, city council or commission, or commissioners court may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.033 - Rentals, Rates, And Charges
  The board, city council or commission, or commissioners court may set and collect rentals, rates, and charges from students and others for the occupancy or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.034 - Pledge Of Revenues
  The board, city council or commission, or commissioners court may pledge all or any part of any of its revenues from the facilities to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.035 - Refunding Bonds
  Revenue bonds issued by a board, city council or commission, or commissioners court under this subchapter and revenue bonds issued by a board, city council ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.036 - Examination Of Bonds By Attorney General
  All bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter, and the appropriate proceedings authorizing their issuance, shall be submitted to the attorney general for examination. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.051 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Board" means the State Board of Education. (2) "Paying agent" means the financial institution that is designated by a school district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.052 - Guarantee
  On approval by the commissioner, bonds issued under Subchapter A, including refunding bonds, are guaranteed by the corpus and income of the permanent school fund. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.053 - Limitation; Value Estimates
  (a) The commissioner may not approve bonds for guarantee if the approval would result in the total amount of outstanding guaranteed bonds exceeding an amount ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.054 - Eligibility
  To be eligible for approval by the commissioner, bonds must be issued under Subchapter A of this chapter or under Subchapter A, Chapter 1207, Government ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.055 - Application For Guarantee
  (a) A school district seeking the guarantee of eligible bonds shall apply to the commissioner. (b) The application must include: (1) the name of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.056 - Investigation
  (a) Following receipt of an application for the guarantee of bonds, the commissioner shall conduct an investigation of the applicant school district in regard to: ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.057 - Guarantee Endorsement
  (a) The commissioner shall endorse bonds approved for guarantee with: (1) the commissioner's signature or a facsimile of the commissioner's signature; and (2) a statement ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.058 - Notice Of Default
  Immediately following a determination that a school district will be or is unable to pay maturing or matured principal or interest on a guaranteed bond, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.059 - Payment From Permanent School Fund
  (a) Immediately following receipt of notice under Section 45.058, the commissioner shall instruct the comptroller to transfer from the appropriate account in the permanent school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.060 - Bonds Not Accelerated On Default
  If a school district fails to pay principal or interest on a guaranteed bond when it matures, other amounts not yet mature are not accelerated ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.061 - Reimbursement Of Permanent School Fund
  (a) If the commissioner orders payment from the permanent school fund on behalf of a school district, the commissioner shall direct the comptroller to withhold ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.062 - Repeated Defaults
  (a) If two or more payments from the permanent school fund are made on the guaranteed bonds of a school district and the commissioner determines ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.063 - Rules
  The board may adopt rules necessary for the administration of the bond guarantee program. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.081 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (a) "District" means an independent school district. (b) "Board" means the governing body of a district. (c) "Real property" means any interest ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.082 - Sale Of Property; Revenue Bonds
  (a) The board of a district may sell real property owned by the district and issue revenue bonds payable from the proceeds of the sale ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.083 - Other Laws Not Applicable
  Section 272.001, Local Government Code, Chapter 26, Parks and Wildlife Code, and all other general laws pertaining to the sale of public property do not ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.084 - Contracts
  The district may execute contracts for constructing or equipping school buildings in the district or for purchasing any necessary sites for school buildings in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.085 - Bond Requirements
  (a) In addition to the powers granted by this subchapter, any board, for and on behalf of its district, may issue, sell, and deliver revenue ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.086 - Liberal Construction
  This subchapter shall be construed liberally to accomplish the legislative intent and the purposes of the subchapter, and all powers granted by this subchapter shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.087 - Other Powers Unrestricted
  This subchapter does not restrict the power of a school district to sell property or issue bonds as provided by other law. Added by Acts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.101 - Use Of Bond Proceeds For Utility Connections
  The proceeds of bonds issued by school districts for the construction and equipment of school buildings in the district and the purchase of the necessary ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.102 - Investment Of Bond Proceeds In Obligations Of United States Or Interest-Bearing Secured Time Bank Deposits
  (a) A school district that has on hand proceeds received from the issuance and sale of bonds or certificates of indebtedness of the district that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.103 - Interest-Bearing Time Warrants
  (a) Any school district in need of funds to construct, repair, or renovate school buildings, purchase school buildings and school equipment, or equip school properties ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.104 - Pledge Of Delinquent Taxes As Security For Loan
  (a) The board of trustees of any school district may pledge its delinquent taxes levied for maintenance purposes for specific past, current, and future school ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.105 - Authorized Expenditures
  (a) The public school funds may not be spent except as provided by this section. (b) The state and county available funds may be used ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.106 - Use Of County Available Fund Apportionment For Area Schools Career And Technology Education
  (a) A school district or accumulation of districts that operates a school designated as an area school for career and technology education purposes or that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.107 - Investment Of Gifts, Devises, And Bequests
  A gift, devise, or bequest made to a school district to provide college scholarships for graduates of the district may be invested by the board ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.108 - Borrowing Money For Current Maintenance Expenses
  (a) Independent or consolidated school districts may borrow money for the purpose of paying maintenance expenses and may evidence those loans with negotiable notes, except ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.109 - Contracts For Athletic Facilities
  (a) Any independent school district, acting by and through its board of trustees, may contract with any corporation, municipality, or institution of higher education, as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.110 - Authorized But Unissued Bonds
  (a) This section applies to any independent school district that has previously voted or authorized school bonds for a specific purpose or purposes and the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.111 - Certificates Of Indebtedness; Issuance By Certain School And Junior College Districts
  (a) Any school district, including a junior college district, situated in a county with a population of 200,000 or more may issue interest-bearing certificates of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.112 - Contracts For Investment Of Debt Service Funds
  (a) A school district, including a junior college district or community college district, may enter into a contract with a term not to exceed seven ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.151 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "District" means any independent school district. (2) "Stadium" means the structural and associated facilities designed for staging and holding athletic contests ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.152 - Creation Of Authority
  (a) If the boards of trustees of two districts find that it is to the best interest of the districts to create an athletic stadium ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.153 - Board Of Directors
  (a) An authority is governed by a board of directors consisting of seven members. The members of the board serve terms ending May 1. A ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.154 - Construction, Acquisition, And Operation Of Stadium
  An authority may construct, enlarge, furnish, and equip stadia, purchase existing stadia, furnishings, and equipment for its stadia, and operate and maintain stadia. A stadium ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.155 - Bonds
  (a) An authority may issue revenue bonds to provide funds for any of its purposes. The bonds shall be payable from and secured by a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.156 - Contracts With School Districts
  (a) Any district, acting by and through its board of trustees, may contract with any athletic stadium authority organized under this subchapter for the use ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.157 - Examination Of Bonds By Attorney General
  Bonds issued under this subchapter and the record relating to their issuance shall be submitted to the attorney general. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.158 - Charges For Use Of Stadium
  (a) The board of directors shall charge sufficient rates for services rendered by the stadium and shall use other sources of its revenues so that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.159 - Depository
  An authority may select a depository according to the procedures provided by law for the selection of independent school district depositories. Added by Acts 1995, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.160 - Tax Exemption
  Recognizing the fact that the property owned by an authority will be held for public purposes only and will be devoted exclusively to the use ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.161 - Eminent Domain
  For the purpose of carrying out any power conferred by this subchapter, an authority may acquire the fee simple title to land and other property ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.162 - Investment Of Bond Proceeds
  In addition to other powers, an authority may invest the proceeds of its bonds, until that money is needed, in the direct obligations of or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.163 - Acceptance Of Gifts
  The board of directors may accept donations, gifts, and endowments to be held and administered as may be required by the respective donors, to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.201 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "School district" means any independent school district. (2) "Bank" means a bank, a savings and loan association, or a savings bank ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.202 - Selection Of Depository
  The school depository or depositories of every independent school district may be selected only as provided by this subchapter. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.203 - Depository Must Be A Bank
  A school depository must be a bank located in this state. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.204 - Conflict Of Interest
  (a) If a member of the board of trustees of a school district is a stockholder, officer, director, or employee of a bank, the bank ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.205 - Term Of Contract
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the depository bank when selected shall serve for a term of two years and until its successor is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.206 - Bid Notices; Bid Form
  (a) The board of trustees of each school district shall, at least 30 days before the termination of the current depository contract, mail to each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.207 - Award Of Contract
  (a) If tie bids are received for a school depository contract and each of the tie bidders has bid to pay the school district the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.208 - Depository Contract; Bond
  (a) The bank or banks selected as school depository or depositories and the school district shall enter into a depository contract or contracts, bond or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.209 - Investment Of District Funds
  The school district may provide in its bid blank for the right to place on time deposits with savings and loan institutions located in this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.231 - Employment Of Assessor And Collector
  (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district may employ a person to assess or collect the school district's taxes and may compensate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 45.232 - Alternate Methods Of Selection Under Former Law
  An independent school district that used a method of selecting the assessor or collector of the school district's taxes for the 1994 tax year that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.001 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "instructional facility" means real property, an improvement to real property, or a necessary fixture of an improvement to real property that is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.002 - Rules
  (a) The commissioner may adopt rules for the administration of this subchapter. (b) The commissioner's rules may limit the amount of an allotment under this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.003 - School Facilities Allotment
  (a) For each year, except as provided by Sections 46.005 and 46.006, a school district is guaranteed a specified amount per student in state and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.004 - Lease-Purchase Agreements
  (a) A district may receive state assistance in connection with a lease-purchase agreement concerning an instructional facility. For purposes of this subchapter: (1) taxes levied ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.005 - Limitation On Guaranteed Amount
  The guaranteed amount of state and local funds for a new project that a district may be awarded in any state fiscal biennium under Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.006 - Shortage Or Excess Of Funds Appropriated For New Projects
  (a) If the total amount appropriated for a year for new projects is less than the amount of money to which school districts applying for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.007 - Refunding Bonds
  A school district may use state funds received under this subchapter to pay the principal of and interest on refunding bonds that: (1) are issued ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.008 - Standards
  The commissioner shall establish standards for adequacy of school facilities. The standards must include requirements related to space, educational adequacy, and construction quality. All new ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.0081 - Security Criteria In Design Of Instructional Facilities
  A school district that constructs a new instructional facility or conducts a major renovation of an existing instructional facility using funds allotted to the district ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.009 - Payment Of School Facilities Allotments
  (a) For each school year, the commissioner shall determine the amount of money to which each school district is entitled under this subchapter. (b) If ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.010 - Projects By More Than One District
  If two or more districts apply for state assistance in connection with a joint project at a single location, each district is entitled to a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.011 - Sale Of Instructional Facility Financed With Instructional Facilities Allotment
  (a) If an instructional facility financed by bonds paid with state and local funds under this subchapter is sold before the bonds are fully paid, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.012 - Applicability To Open-Enrollment Charter Schools
  An open-enrollment charter school is not entitled to an allotment under this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1504, § 30, eff. Sept. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.013 - Multiple Allotments Prohibited
  A school district is not entitled to state assistance under this subchapter based on taxes with respect to which the district receives state assistance under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.031 - Rules
  The commissioner may adopt rules for the administration of this subchapter. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, § 1.29, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.032 - Allotment
  (a) Each school district is guaranteed a specified amount per student in state and local funds for each cent of tax effort to pay the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.033 - Eligible Bonds
  Bonds, including bonds issued under Section 45.006, are eligible to be paid with state and local funds under this subchapter if: (1) the district made ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.034 - Limits On Assistance
  (a) The existing debt tax rate ("EDTR") under Section 46.032 may not exceed $0.29 per $100 of valuation, or a greater amount for any year ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.035 - Payment Of Assistance
  Section 46.009 applies to the payment of assistance under this subchapter. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, § 1.29, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.036 - Applicability To Open-Enrollment Charter Schools
  An open-enrollment charter school is not entitled to an allotment under this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1504, § 31, eff. Sept. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.037 - Multiple Allotments Prohibited
  A school district is not entitled to state assistance under this subchapter based on taxes with respect to which the district receives state assistance under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 46.061 -
  (a) The commissioner by rule may provide for the payment of state assistance under this chapter to refinance school district debt. A refinancing may not ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.904 - Street Closing
  Text of section as amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 669, § 11 The governing body of an institution of higher education as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.904 - Street Closing
  Text of section as amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1088, § 1 The governing board of an institution of higher education as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9045 - Limitation On Use Of Eminent Domain
  (a) In this section: (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. (2) "Lodging facility" does not include a dormitory or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.905 - State-Owned Museum Buildings
  (a) The governing board of each state-supported institution of higher education commonly referred to as a senior college shall formulate and adopt reasonable rules and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.906 - Sequential Education Planning For Nursing Education
  The governing board of each state-supported institution of higher education which provides a nursing education program shall plan and incorporate into the program standards and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.908 - Faculty Compensation Policies
  (a) The governing board of each institution of higher education shall establish faculty compensation policies that, to the greatest extent possible, provide the faculty of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.909 - Expulsion Of Certain Foreign Students
  (a) The governing board of a public institution of higher education may expel from that institution any student who is a citizen of a country ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9095 - Student Compliance With Selective Service Registration
  (a) An individual may not receive a loan, grant, scholarship, or other financial assistance funded by state revenue, including federal funds or gifts and grants ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.910 - Interviews For Historical Purposes And Collections Of Rare Books, Original Manuscripts, Personal Papers, Unpublished Letters, And Audio And Video Tapes
  (a) An oral interview that is obtained for historical purposes by an agreement of confidentiality between an interviewee and a state institution of higher education ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.911 - Religious Holy Days
  (a) In this section: (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Subdivision (7) of Section 61.003 of this code, but includes the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9111 - Excused Absence For Active Military Service
  (a) In this section: (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. (2) "Active military service" includes active military service performed ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.912 - Equity Ownership; Business Participation
  (a) It is not a violation of Chapter 572, Government Code, or any other statute, rule, regulation, or the common law of the State of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.913 - Executive Search Committees
  (a) As used in this section, the term "executive search committee" shall mean a committee formed by an act of a board of regents of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.914 - Protection Of Certain Information
  In order to protect the actual or potential value, the following information shall be confidential and shall not be subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.915 - Academies Of Mathematics And Science
  (a) On approval of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, a public senior college or university, as defined by Section 61.003 of this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.916 - Grants For Teaching And Education Research
  (a) From funds appropriated for that purpose, the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, may make grants to institutions of higher education for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.917 - Faculty Members; Use Of English
  (a) In this section: (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003 of this code, but does not include a medical ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.918 - Rural Health; Family Practice Residency Program
  (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the Office of Rural Community Affairs, medical schools, nursing schools, and schools of allied health sciences shall cooperate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.919 - Hiv And Aids Policy; Information Dissemination
  (a) In this section: (1) "AIDS" means acquired immune deficiency syndrome as defined by the Centers for Disease Control of the United States Public Health ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9191 - Bacterial Meningitis Information For New Students
  (a) In this section: (1) "Institution of higher education" and "private or independent institution of higher education" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. (2) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.920 - Technology Transfer
  (a) Technology transfer can enhance the state's investment in research and development through the rapid commercialization of university research and the creation and expansion of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.921 - Posting Of Steroid Law Notice
  Each public institution of higher education shall post in a conspicuous location in each gymnasium at the institution the following notice: Anabolic steroids and growth ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.922 - Mandatory Retirement Prohibited
  (a) In this section, "institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003 of this code. (b) An institution of higher education may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.923 - Qualifications Of Certain Business Entities To Enter Into Contracts With An Institution Of Higher Education
  (a) In this section: (1) "Corporation" means a corporation for profit organized under the laws of this state or under laws other than the laws ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.924 - Assessment Instruments Used For Admission Standards
  Each company or organization that sponsors a college admissions testing program shall annually report to the Central Education Agency the performance in the testing program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9241 - Admission Of Student With Nontraditional Secondary Education
  (a) In this section: (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. (2) "Nontraditional secondary education" means a course of study ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9242 - Readmission Of Student Who Withdraws To Perform Active Military Service
  (a) This section applies only to a student who withdraws from an institution of higher education to perform active military service as a member of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9245 - Admission Of Person Receiving Athletic Scholarship
  (a) In this section, "general academic teaching institution" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. (b) A general academic teaching institution may not admit an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.925 - Religious Holy Days
  (a) An institution of higher education may not discriminate against or penalize in any way a member of the faculty of the institution who is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.926 - Payroll Deductions For Qualified Retirement Plans
  (a) On written authorization from a football coach who is entitled to participate in a qualified football coaches plan, an institution of higher education may: ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.927 - Energy Savings Performance Contracts
  (a) In this section, "energy savings performance contract" means a contract for energy or water conservation measures to reduce energy or water consumption or operating ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.928 - Written Contracts Or Agreements Between Certain Institutions
  (a) In this section, "governing board" and "institution of higher education" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003 of this code. (b) A written contract ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.929 - Prohibition Against Certain Extensions Of Credit By Certain Retail Stores
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, a retail store that is owned or operated by an institution of higher education may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.930 - National Student Exchange Program
  (a) In this section: (1) "General academic teaching institution" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003 of this code. (2) "National student exchange program" means ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.931 - Right To An Academic Fresh Start
  (a) This section applies to any public institution of higher education as defined in Section 61.003 of this code. (b) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.932 - Motor Vehicles Owned And Used By State-Supported Institutions
  (a) A motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that is the property of and used exclusively by any institution of higher education as defined by Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9325 - Retirement Incentives
  (a) A medical and dental unit may offer a retirement incentive to an employee of the unit who is eligible to retire under Subtitle C, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.933 - Immunization Requirements; Exception
  (a) An institution of higher education may require applicants for admission to be immunized against diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, mumps, tetanus, and poliomyelitis, except as provided ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9335 - Acquisition Of Goods And Services
  (a) An institution of higher education may acquire goods or services by the method that provides the best value to the institution, including: (1) competitive ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.934 - Assignment, Transfer, Or Pledge Of Compensation
  (a) In this section, "employee" means any person employed by an institution of higher education in an executive, administrative, or clerical capacity or as a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.935 - Disruptive Activities
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person, alone or in concert with others, intentionally engages in disruptive activity on the campus or property ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9355 - Assistance Relating To Undergraduate Admissions, Financial Aid, And Testing
  (a) The governing board of each general academic teaching institution shall establish an office at the institution to assist applicants, potential applicants, high school guidance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.936 - Hazing
  (a) Subchapter F, Chapter 37, applies to a postsecondary educational institution under this section in the same manner as that subchapter applies to a public ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.937 - Immunity From Liability For Volunteers
  (a) A volunteer who is serving as a direct service volunteer for an institution of higher education is immune from civil liability for any act ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.940 - Student Debit Cards
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education may establish a program to provide students enrolled at the institution with a debit card. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.941 - Purchase Of Agricultural Products
  (a) An institution of higher education that purchases agricultural products shall give first preference to products grown, produced, or processed in this state if the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.942 - Performance Evaluation Of Tenured Faculty
  (a) In this section: (1) "Governing board" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. (2) "Institution of higher education" means a general academic teaching institution, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.943 - Renewal Of Faculty Employment Contracts
  (a) In this section: (1) "Contract" means an agreement between an institution of higher education or its authorized agent and a faculty member that establishes ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.945 - Student Participation In Selection Of Food Service Contracts
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education shall develop and implement policies that provide the students at the institution with a reasonable ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.946 - Student Debit Cards At Private Or Independent Institutions Of Higher Education
  (a) The governing board of a private or independent institution of higher education may establish a program to provide students enrolled at the institution with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.9461 - Charges And Fees For Certain Payments At Private Or Independent Institutions Of Higher Education
  (a) In this section, "private or independent institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. (b) This section applies only to a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.947 - Payroll Deductions For Certain Organizations
  (a) An employee of an institution of higher education may authorize a deduction each pay period from the employee's salary or wage payment for: (1) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.948 - Restrictions On Contracts With Administrators
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education may enter into an employment contract with an administrator that is to be paid in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.950 - Policy Regulating Student Travel
  (a) In this section, "governing board" and "institution of higher education" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. (b) Each governing board of an institution ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.951 - Confidentiality Of Certain Information Related To Purchase Or Sale Of Real Estate
  (a) Information related to the location, purchase price, or sale price of real property purchased or sold by or for an institution of higher education, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.952 - Student Health Insurance
  (a) The governing board of a medical and dental unit may require a student enrolled at a medical and dental unit to have in effect ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.960 - Grievance Rights On Certain Personnel Issues
  (a) In this section: (1) "Faculty member" means a person employed full-time by an institution of higher education as a member of the institution's faculty, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.961 - Leave Provisions For Employees Of University System Or Component Institution Of System
  (a) In this section: (1) "Governing board" and "university system" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. (2) "Leave" includes vacation leave, sick leave, and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.962 - Merit Salary Increases
  (a) An institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003 may grant merit salary increases, including one-time merit payments, to employees described by this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.963 - Employee With Multiple Appointments
  A full-time employee of an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003 who has appointments to more than one position at the same ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.964 - Hiring Of Certain Retirees
  (a) An institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003 may employ a person who has retired under the Teacher Retirement System (Subtitle C, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.965 - Employee Notification
  (a) If a state law requires an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003 to provide written notification to its officers or employees ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.966 - Insurance Coverage
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education may purchase insurance insuring the institution and its employees against any liability, risk, or exposure ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.967 - Limitation On Educational Debt
  No statute of limitations shall apply to a lawsuit, to the enforcement of a judgment, or to any other legal action to collect an educational ...
• Texas Education Code Section 51.968 - Undergraduate Course Credit For High School Students Completing Postsecondary-Level Program
  (a) In this section: (1) "Advanced Placement examination" means an examination administered through the Advanced Placement Program. (2) "CLEP examination" means an examination administered through ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.01 - Administration
  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, or its successors, shall administer the student loan program authorized by this chapter pursuant to Article III, Sections 50b, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.02 - Delegation Of Powers And Duties
  The board may delegate to the commissioner of higher education the powers, duties, and functions authorized by this chapter, except those relating to the sale ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.03 - Board Interest And Sinking Funds
  (a) The board by resolution may establish one or more interest and sinking funds as accounts in the state treasury. (b) A board interest and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.04 - Board Student Loan Funds
  (a) The board by resolution may establish one or more board student loan funds as accounts in the state treasury. (b) A board student loan ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.11 - Issuance Of Bonds
  (a) The board may from time to time provide by resolution for the issuance of negotiable bonds in a total aggregate amount not exceeding $285 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.12 - Refunding Bonds
  (a) The board may provide by resolution for the issuance of refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding any bonds issued under the provisions of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.13 - Bonds As Investments
  All bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter are legal and authorized investments for banks, savings banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.14 - Sale Of Bonds
  When the board has authorized the issuance of a series of bonds and has determined to call for bids on the bonds, it shall publish ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.15 - Competitive Bids
  No installment or series of bonds may be sold for an amount less than the face value of all the bonds comprising the installment or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.16 - Proceeds From Bond Sale
  All proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by Article III, Section 50b, 50b-1, or 50b-2 of the Texas Constitution shall be deposited in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.17 - Interest And Sinking Funds
  (a) Each fiscal year a sufficient portion of the funds received by the board as repayment of student loans granted under this chapter, as interest ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.18 - Duties Of Comptroller
  The comptroller of public accounts shall make the transfers required under the provisions of this chapter and shall pay or cause to be paid the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.19 - Investment Of Funds
  All money in the Texas college interest and sinking fund and in each board interest and sinking fund, including the reserve portion, and all money ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.20 - Student Loan Notes
  (a) Promissory notes evidencing student loans made by the board with proceeds from bonds may be deposited and held in any fund as directed by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.31 - Participating Institutions
  In this subchapter, "participating higher educational institution" means a public or private nonprofit institution of higher education, including a junior college, accredited by a recognized ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.32 - Qualifications For Loans
  (a) The board may authorize loans from the Texas Opportunity Plan Fund to a qualified applicant who: (1) is a resident of this state as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.321 - Standards Concerning Ability To Repay Certain Loans
  In establishing requirements to be met by applicants for student loans authorized by the board under this chapter, the board may not establish standards relating ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.33 - Amount Of Loan
  The amount of the loan to any qualified applicant shall be limited to the difference between the financial resources available to the applicant, including but ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.34 - Payments To Student
  (a) No payment may be made to any student until the student has executed a note payable to the Texas Opportunity Plan Fund for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.35 - Term Of Loans
  The term of all authorized loans must be for the shortest possible period consistent with general practice by issuers of student loans, as determined by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.36 - Loan Interest And Fees
  (a) The board shall from time to time fix the interest to be charged for any student loan at a rate sufficient to pay the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.37 - Insurance
  The board may contract with any insurance company or companies licensed to do business in Texas for insurance on the life of any student borrower ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.38 - Repayment Of Loans
  Repayment of any loan and interest authorized under this chapter shall be made monthly and shall begin not later than nine months after the date ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.39 - Default; Suit
  When any person who has received a loan authorized by this chapter has failed or refused to make as many as six monthly payments due ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.40 - Cancellation Of Certain Loan Repayments
  (a) The board may cancel the repayment of a loan received by a student who earns a doctorate of psychology degree and who is employed ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.41 - Restriction On Issuance Of Certain Federally Insured Student Loans
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the board may issue a student loan under the Federal Family Education Loan Program (20 U.S.C. Section 1071 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.501 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. (2) "Board interest and sinking fund" means an interest and sinking fund established ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.51 - Advisory Committees
  The board may appoint advisory committees from outside its membership as it deems necessary to assist it in achieving the purposes of this chapter. Acts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.52 - Contracts
  (a) Except as provided by this section, in achieving the goals outlined in this chapter and the performance of functions assigned to it, the board ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.521 - Filing Of Claims On Loans In Default
  (a) The board shall file a claim with the appropriate guarantor on an insured loan in default as soon as it is practicable to do ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.53 - Gifts And Grants
  The board may accept gifts, grants, or donations of real or personal property from any individual, group, association, or corporation or the United States, subject ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.54 - Rules And Regulations
  (a) The board shall adopt and publish rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this chapter in accordance with and under the conditions applied ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.541 - Accounts For Loan Programs
  (a) The board shall establish separate accounting within the Texas Opportunity Plan Fund and the student loan auxiliary fund for each of its existing loan ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.55 - Audit
  All transactions under the provisions of this chapter are subject to audit by the state auditor. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3072, ch. 1024, art. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.56 - Annual Report
  (a) The board shall make a report of the operations of the Texas Opportunity Plan and of the student loan auxiliary fund to the governor ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.61 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "College savings bond" means a general obligation bond issued by the board under Article III, Section 50b-2, of the Texas Constitution. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.62 - Establishment Of Savings Bonds Program; Use Of Bond Proceeds
  (a) The college savings bonds program is established to provide the public with a method of saving that encourages enrollment at postsecondary educational institutions. (b) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.63 - Public Purpose
  The legislature finds and declares that this subchapter: (1) by authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds as college savings bonds provides the public with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.64 - Administration Of Savings Bonds Program; Rules
  (a) The board shall administer the college savings bonds program. (b) The board may adopt any rules necessary to administer this subchapter. Added by Acts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.65 - Effect On Other Financial Aid
  In determining the eligibility of a student for a scholarship, grant, or other monetary assistance awarded by a state agency, an amount of $10,000 or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.66 - Authority To Issue
  (a) The board shall issue and sell college savings bonds in a total aggregate amount not exceeding $75 million authorized under Article III, Section 50b-2, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.67 - Security Of Savings Bonds; General Obligation
  The college savings bonds authorized under Article III, Section 50b-2, of the Texas Constitution and issued in accordance with this subchapter are general obligations of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.68 - Terms
  (a) Savings bonds issued under this subchapter must mature serially or otherwise not more than 25 years after they are issued. (b) The college savings ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.69 - Determination Of Aggregate Principal Amount Of Bonds
  The aggregate principal amount of the college savings bonds issued under this subchapter shall be the aggregate of the initial offering prices, not including accrued ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.70 - Marketing And Distribution Of Bonds
  (a) The board shall coordinate the marketing and distribution of the college savings bonds. (b) The board may use its staff to assist in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.71 - Mandamus
  The performance of official duties prescribed by this subchapter and Article III, Section 50b-2, of the Texas Constitution, in reference to the payment of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.72 - Replacement Of Bond
  The board may provide for the replacement of any college savings bond that is mutilated, lost, or destroyed. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.73 - Approval And Registration
  (a) College savings bonds issued by the board and the records relating to their issuance must be submitted to the attorney general for examination as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.74 - Exemption From Taxation
  College savings bonds issued under this subchapter may not be taxed by the state or any of its political subdivisions. Added by Acts 1989, 71st ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.81 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Board" means the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. (2) "Bond" means a general obligation bond issued by the board under Article ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.82 - Issuance; Sale
  (a) The board may by resolution authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds in total aggregate amounts not to exceed: (1) $300 million under Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.83 - Terms
  (a) Except as provided by this subchapter, the board by resolution may provide the terms and name of the bonds. (b) The bonds must be ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.84 - Execution; Registration
  The resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds may provide for the manner of execution and for the registration of ownership of the bonds. Added ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.85 - Marketing; Distribution
  (a) The board shall coordinate the marketing and distribution of the bonds. (b) The board may use its staff to market and distribute the bonds ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.86 - Approval And Registration
  (a) The attorney general shall examine the bonds and the records relating to the bonds' issuance. (b) If the attorney general finds that the bonds ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.87 - Mandamus
  The performance of official duties prescribed by this subchapter and Article III, Sections 50b-3, 50b-4, and 50b-5 of the Texas Constitution, in reference to the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.88 - Replacement Of Bond
  The board may provide for the replacement of a bond that is mutilated, lost, or destroyed. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.89 - Fund
  (a) A special fund to be known as the student loan auxiliary fund is created in the state treasury. (b) The fund consists of proceeds ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.90 - Loans From Fund
  (a) The board: (1) shall make a loan from the fund to a student who qualifies for a loan under Subchapter C; and (2) may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 52.91 - Bonds For Texas B-On-Time Student Loan Program
  (a) The board shall deposit to the credit of the Texas B-On-time student loan account established under Section 56.463 any proceeds from the sale of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.01 - Short Title
  This chapter may be cited as the Higher Education Facility Authority for Public Schools Act. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3072, ch. 1024, art. 1, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.02 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "City" means an incorporated city or town in this state. (2) "Governing body" means the council, commission, or other governing body ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.11 - Creation Of Authority
  When the governing body of a city finds that it is to the best interest of the city and its inhabitants to create a higher ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.12 - Territory
  The authority comprises only the territory included within the boundaries of the city or cities creating it. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3072, ch. 1024, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.13 - Corporate Powers
  An authority is a body politic and corporate having the power of perpetual succession. It shall have a seal; it may sue and be sued; ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.131 - Authority's Earnings
  A private person may not share in any of an authority's earnings. Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 861, ch. 200, § 3, eff. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.14 - Board Of Directors
  (a) The authority shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of not less than 7 nor more than 11 members to be determined ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.15 - Organization Of Board; Quorum; Employees; Counsel
  (a) The board shall elect from among its members a president and vice president, and shall elect a secretary and a treasurer who may or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.31 - No Taxing Power
  An authority has no power to tax. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3072, ch. 1024, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971. Amended by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.32 - No Power Of Eminent Domain
  The authority does not have the power of eminent domain. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3072, ch. 1024, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.33 - Limited Power To Acquire, Own, And Operate Educational And Housing Facilities
  (a) An authority or a nonprofit instrumentality created under Section 53.35(b) may acquire, own, hold title to, lease, or operate an educational facility or housing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.331 - Refinancing Facilities
  The authority may refinance any educational or housing facility acquired, constructed, or improved. Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 863, ch. 200, § 6, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.34 - Revenue Bonds
  (a) An authority or a nonprofit instrumentality created under Section 53.35(b), including an authority or nonprofit instrumentality authorized to own facilities under Section 53.33(a), may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.35 - Issuance Of Bonds; Procedure; Etc.
  (a) The bonds shall be authorized by resolution adopted by a majority vote of a quorum of the board. Bonds authorized under this section shall ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.351 - Bonds For Open-Enrollment Charter School Facilities
  (a) The Texas Public Finance Authority shall establish a nonprofit corporation to issue revenue bonds on behalf of authorized open-enrollment charter schools for the acquisition, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.36 - Bond Resolution; Notice; Election
  (a) Before authorizing the issuance of bonds, other than refunding bonds, the board shall cause a notice to be issued stating that it intends to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.37 - Junior Lien Bonds; Parity Bonds
  Bonds constituting a junior lien on the net revenue or properties may be issued unless prohibited by the bond resolution or trust indenture. Parity bonds ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.38 - Reserves For Operating And Other Expenses
  Money for the payment of not more than two years' interest on the bonds and an amount estimated by the board to be required for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.39 - Refunding Bonds
  Bonds may be issued for the purpose of refunding outstanding bonds in the manner provided in this chapter for other bonds, and may be exchanged ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.40 - Approval Of Bonds; Registration; Negotiability
  Bonds issued under this chapter and the record relating to their issuance shall be submitted to the attorney general, and if he finds that they ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.41 - Authorized Investments
  All bonds issued under this chapter are legal and authorized investments for all banks, savings banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, savings and loan ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.42 - Investment Of Funds; Security
  To the extent it is applicable, the law as to the security for and the investment of funds, applicable to cities, controls the investment of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.43 - Depositories
  The authority may select a depository or depositories according to the procedures provided by law for the selection of city depositories, or it may award ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.44 - Operation Of Facilities; Rates Charged; Reserve Funds
  (a) The facilities may be operated by the authority without the intervention of private profit for the use and benefit of the public, or may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.45 - Transactions With Other Agencies And Persons
  The authority may borrow money and accept grants from, and enter into contracts, leases, or other transactions with the United States, the State of Texas, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.46 - Authority Exempt From Taxation
  Because the property owned by authority will be held for educational purposes only and will be devoted exclusively to the use and benefit of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 53.48 - Bonds For Authorized Charter Schools
  In the same manner that a corporation may issue and execute bonds or other obligations under this chapter for an institution of higher education, a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Institution of higher education" has the same meaning as is assigned to it by Section 61.003 of this code. (2) "Governing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.0015 - Adoption Of Certain Definitions By Rule
  In consultation with representatives of institutions of higher education, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by rule shall adopt definitions related to the resident status ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.002 - Applicability Of Chapter
  The provisions of this chapter apply to all institutions of higher education, except that as to junior colleges this chapter applies only to the extent ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.003 - Tuition And Charges To Be Authorized By Law
  No institution of higher education may collect from students attending the institution any tuition, fee, or charge of any kind except as permitted by law, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.004 - Retention And Use Of Funds
  All tuition, local funds, and fees collected by an institution of higher education shall be retained and expended by the institution and accounted for annually ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.005 - Right To Collect Special Fees
  The provisions of this subchapter requiring the governing board of each institution of higher education to collect tuition fees do not deprive the board of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.006 - Refund Of Tuition And Fees
  (a) A general academic teaching institution or medical and dental unit, as soon as practicable, shall refund the amount of fees and tuition in excess ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.0065 - Tuition Rebate For Certain Undergraduates
  (a) A qualified student is eligible for a rebate of a portion of the undergraduate tuition the student has paid if the student: (1) is ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.007 - Option To Pay Tuition By Installment
  (a) The governing board of each institution of higher education shall provide for the payment of tuition and fees during the fall and spring semesters ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.0071 - Authority Of Institution To Provide Payment Options For Student With Delayed Financial Aid
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education may postpone the due date for the payment of all or part of the tuition ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.008 - Tuition Rate Set By Governing Board
  (a) The tuition rates provided by Subchapter B of this chapter are minimum rates. Except as provided by Subsections (e), (f), and (g), the governing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.009 - Increase In Tuition Rate Or Fees
  An institution of higher education that sets the tuition rates and fees for a semester or summer term and permits a student to register for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.010 - Reduction In Tuition
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education may reduce the amount of tuition charged to a student under this chapter to an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.011 - Tuition Limit In Cases Of Concurrent Enrollment
  When a student registers at more than one public institution of higher education at the same time, his tuition charges shall be determined in the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.012 - Tuition Rates For Certain Doctoral Students
  The governing board of an institution of higher education may charge a resident doctoral student who has more semester credit hours of doctoral work than ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.013 - Students 55 Years Of Age Or Older
  (a) An institution of higher education may charge a student 55 years of age or older tuition and fees at rates that are lower than ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.014 - Tuition For Repeated Or Excessive Undergraduate Hours
  (a) An institution of higher education may charge a resident undergraduate student tuition at a higher rate than the rate charged to other resident undergraduate ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.015 - Billing And Notification For Tuition
  For billing and catalogue purposes, each governing board shall accumulate all the tuition that it charges under this chapter into one tuition charge. Added by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.0501 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Census date" means the date in an academic term on which an institution of higher education is required to certify a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.051 - Tuition Rates
  (a) In this section: (1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. (2) "General academic teaching institution" has the meaning assigned by Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.0512 - Interim Tuition Rates
  Text of section effective until Jan. 1, 2008 (a) Notwithstanding Section 54.051, tuition for the applicable academic years described by this section is as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.0513 - Designated Tuition
  (a) In addition to amounts that a governing board of an institution of higher education is authorized to charge as tuition under the other provisions ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.0515 - Legislative Oversight Committee On Higher Education
  (a) In this section, "committee" means the legislative oversight committee on higher education. (b) The legislative oversight committee on higher education is composed of 12 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.0516 - Special Summer Tuition Rates At Texas A&M University: Pilot Program
  Text of section effective until January 1, 2008 (a) This section applies only to a resident undergraduate student enrolled for a summer term or session ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.052 - Determination Of Resident Status
  (a) Subject to the other applicable provisions of this subchapter governing the determination of resident status, the following persons are considered residents of this state ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.053 - Information Required To Establish Resident Status
  A person shall submit the following information to an institution of higher education to establish resident status under this subchapter: (1) if the person applies ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.054 - Continuing Resident Status
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by Subsection (c) of this section or by Section 54.055 or 54.056, a person classified by an institution of higher ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.055 - Reclassification Based On Additional Or Changed Information
  (a) On the basis of additional or changed information, an institution of higher education may reclassify as a resident or nonresident of this state under ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.056 - Errors In Classification
  (a) If an institution of higher education erroneously classifies a person as a resident of this state and the person is not entitled or permitted ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.057 - Liability For Unpaid Nonresident Tuition
  (a) The following persons are liable for the difference between resident and nonresident tuition for each academic term in which the person pays resident tuition ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.058 - Military Personnel And Dependents
  (a) Military personnel are classified as provided by this section. (b) A person who is an officer, enlisted person, selectee, or draftee of the Army, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.059 - Faculty And Dependents
  A teacher or professor of an institution of higher education, and the spouse and children of such a teacher or professor, are entitled to register ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.060 - Resident Of Bordering State Or Nation Or Participant In Student Exchange Program: Tuition
  (a) The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by this chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.0601 - Nonresident Tuition Rates At Certain Institutions
  On the written request of the governing board of a general academic teaching institution located not more than 100 miles from the boundary of this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.063 - Teaching Or Research Assistant
  A teaching assistant or research assistant of any institution of higher education and the spouse and children of such a teaching assistant or research assistant ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.064 - Scholarship Student
  (a) A student who holds a competitive scholarship of at least $1,000 for the academic year or summer for which the student is enrolled and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.065 - Biomedical Research Program; Scholarship Student
  A student is entitled to pay the fees and charges required of Texas residents without regard to the length of time the student has resided ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.069 - Registered Nurses In Postgraduate Nursing Degree Programs
  An institution of higher education may permit a registered nurse authorized to practice professional nursing in Texas to register by paying the tuition fees and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.070 - Foreign Service Officers
  A foreign service officer employed by the United States Department of State and enrolled in an institution of higher education is entitled to pay the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.073 - Tuition Rates For Olympic Athletes
  Text of section as added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 865, § 1 (a) A person enrolled in The University of Texas at ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.073 - Economic Development And Diversification
  Text of section as added by Acts 2005, 79th. Leg., ch. 888, § 4 A person who registers at an institution of higher education ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.074 - Nato Agreement
  A nonimmigrant alien who resides in this state in accordance with the Agreement between the Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty Regarding the Status of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.075 - Coordinating Board Rules; Supplementation Of Rules By Institutions Limited
  (a) The coordinating board shall adopt rules to carry out the purposes of this subchapter. (b) An institution of higher education may not require a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.201 - Highest Ranking High School Graduates
  The governing board of each institution of higher education may issue scholarships each year to the highest ranking graduate of each accredited high school of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.203 - Veterans, Dependents, Etc.
  (a) The governing board of each institution of higher education shall exempt the following persons from the payment of all dues, fees, and charges, including ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.204 - Children Of Disabled Firemen And Peace Officers
  (a) In this section: (1) "Eligible employee" means a full-paid or volunteer firefighter, or a full-paid municipal, county, or state peace officer, or a custodial ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.2041 - Disabled Peace Officers
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education may exempt a student from the payment of tuition and required fees authorized by this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.205 - Blind, Deaf Students
  (a) In this section: (1) "Resident" has the same meaning as is assigned it in Subchapter B of this chapter. (2) "Blind person" means a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.207 - Students From Other Nations Of The American Hemisphere
  (a) The governing boards of the institutions of higher education may annually exempt from the payment of tuition fees the following students: (1) 200 native-born ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.208 - Firemen Enrolled In Fire Science Courses
  The governing boards of the state institutions of collegiate rank supported in whole or in part by public funds shall exempt from the payment of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.209 - Children Of Prisoners Of War Or Persons Missing In Action
  (a) In this section: (1) "Dependent child" means a person under 21 years of age, or a person under 25 years of age who receives ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.210 - Senior Citizens
  (a) In this section, "senior citizen" means a person 65 years of age or older. (b) The governing board of a state-supported institution of higher ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.211 - Exemptions For Students In Foster Or Other Residential Care
  (a) A student is exempt from the payment of tuition and fees authorized in this chapter if the student: (1) was in foster care or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.2111 - Exemptions For Adopted Students Formerly In Foster Or Other Residential Care
  (a) A student is exempt from the payment of tuition and fees authorized by this chapter if the student: (1) was adopted; and (2) was ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.212 - One-Year Exemption For Certain Tanf Students
  A student is exempt from the payment of tuition and fees authorized by this chapter for the first academic year in which the student enrolls ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.213 - Funding Of Exemptions
  (a) An institution of higher education may fund tuition exemptions under Section 54.212 or 54.214 from local funds or from funds appropriated to the institution. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.214 - Educational Aides
  (a) In this section, "coordinating board" means the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. (b) The governing board of an institution of higher education shall exempt ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.2155 - Payment Of Tuition Assistance For Members Of State Military Forces
  (a) For each semester, the adjutant general of the state military forces shall certify to institutions of higher education as described by Section 431.090, Government ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.216 - Students Enrolled In Course For Concurrent High School And College-Level Credit
  The governing board of an institution of higher education may waive all or part of the tuition and fees charged by the institution for a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.2161 - Pilot Project For Certain Students Enrolled In Junior College Courses For Concurrent High School And Higher Education Academic Credit
  Text of section effective until August 15, 2009 (a) In this section: (1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. (2) "Public junior ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.217 - Students Enrolled In Fully Funded Courses
  The governing board of an institution of higher education may waive tuition and fees for students attending courses that are fully funded by federal or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.218 - Distance Learning Or Off-Campus Courses
  The governing board of an institution of higher education may waive a fee it is authorized to charge if the board determines that: (1) a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.219 - Prisoners Of War
  (a) In this section, "tuition and required fees" includes tuition, service fees, lab fees, building use fees, and all other required fees except room, board, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.221 - Children Of Professional Nursing Program Faculty
  (a) In this section: (1) "Child" means a child 25 years of age or younger and includes an adopted child. (2) "Graduate professional nursing program" ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.222 - Preceptors For Professional Nursing Education Programs
  (a) In this section, "child" and "undergraduate professional nursing program" have the meanings assigned by Section 54.221. (b) The governing board of an institution of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.501 - Laboratory Fees
  (a) An institution of higher education shall set and collect a laboratory fee in an amount sufficient to cover the general cost of laboratory materials ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5011 - Charges And Fees For Certain Payments
  (a) This section applies to a payment of tuition, a fee, or another charge to an institution of higher education that is made or authorized ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.502 - General Property Deposits
  (a) An institution of higher education may collect a reasonable deposit in an amount not to exceed $100 from each student to insure the institution ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5021 - Student Deposit Fund; Composition And Uses
  (a) The student deposit fund consists of the income from the investment or time deposits of general property deposits and of forfeited general property deposits. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5022 - Investment Of General Property Deposits
  The governing board of each institution of higher education may invest the funds received as general property deposits authorized in Section 54.502 of this code ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5025 - Proration Of Fees
  Based on the length of the semester or term for which a student is enrolled, the governing board of an institution of higher education may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.503 - Student Services Fees
  (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) "Student services" means activities which are separate and apart from the regularly scheduled academic functions of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5031 - Student Fee Advisory Committee
  (a) A student fee advisory committee is established at each institution of higher education except The University of Texas at Austin to advise the governing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5035 - Waiver Of Fees
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the governing board of an institution of higher education may waive a mandatory or discretionary fee for a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.504 - Incidental Fees
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education may fix the rate of incidental fees to be paid to an institution under its ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.505 - Vehicle Registration Fees And Other Fees Related To Parking And Traffic
  (a) The governing board of each institution of higher education may charge a reasonable fee to students, faculty, and staff for registration of a vehicle ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.506 - Fees And Charges For Services To The Public; The University Of Houston System
  A schedule of minimum fees and charges shall be established by the board of regents of the University of Houston System for services performed by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5061 - Student Services Fees; The University Of Houston System
  (a) In this section: (1) "Student services" includes textbook rentals; recreational activities; health, hospital, and other medical services; group hospitalization; intramural and intercollegiate athletics; artists ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5062 - Student Fees Advisory Committee; The University Of Houston System
  (a) A student fees advisory committee is established at each component institution of the University of Houston System to advise the board of regents, presidents, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.507 - Group Hospital And Medical Services Fees; Texas A & M University System
  (a) The Board of Regents of The Texas A & M University System may levy and collect from each student at any institution of higher ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.508 - Medical Services Fee; Texas Tech University System Components
  (a) The board of regents of the Texas Tech University System may charge each student registered at a component institution of the Texas Tech University ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5081 - Medical Services Fee; University Of North Texas System Institutions
  (a) The board of regents of the University of North Texas System may charge each student registered at a component institution of the University of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5082 - Medical Services Fee; Midwestern State University
  (a) The board of regents of Midwestern State University may charge each student registered at the university a medical services fee not to exceed $30 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5085 - Medical Services Fee; Texas Woman's University
  (a) The board of regents of Texas Woman's University may charge each student registered at the university a medical services fee not to exceed $55 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5089 - Medical Services Fee; Texas State University System Components
  (a) The board of regents of the Texas State University System may charge each student registered at a component institution of the Texas State University ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.50891 - Medical Services Fee; The University Of Texas System Components
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student registered at a component institution of The University of Texas ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.509 - Student Recreation Fee; Texas Tech University System Components
  (a) If approved by student vote, the board of regents of the Texas Tech University System may charge each student enrolled at a component institution ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5091 - Student Recreational Facility Fee; University Of North Texas
  (a) If approved by a majority vote of those students participating in a general election held at the university for that purpose, the board of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.510 - Student Recreational Sports Fee; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled in The University of Texas at Austin a recreational ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.511 - Student Fees For Bus Service; Texas State University System
  (a) The board of regents of the Texas State University System may charge each student enrolled at Texas State University--San Marcos a fee initially set ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5111 - Environmental Service Fee; Southwest Texas State University
  (a) The board of regents of the Texas State University System may charge each student enrolled at Southwest Texas State University an environmental service fee ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.512 - Shuttle Bus Fee; The University Of Texas At Arlington
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may levy a shuttle bus fee not to exceed $10 per student for each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5121 - Intercollegiate Athletic Fee; The University Of Texas At Arlington
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may impose a mandatory intercollegiate athletics fee at The University of Texas at Arlington. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5122 - Recreational Facility Fee; The University Of Texas At Arlington
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas at Arlington a recreational ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.513 - Student Service Fees; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) In this section: (1) "student services" includes textbook rentals; recreational activities; health, hospital, and other medical services; group hospitalization; automobile parking privileges; intramural and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5131 - International Education Fee; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge and collect from students registered at The University of Texas at Austin ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5132 - International Education Fee
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education, other than The University of Texas at Austin, may charge and collect from students registered ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5133 - Martin Luther King, Jr., Statue Fee; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge and collect from students registered at The University of Texas at Austin ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5134 - Washington, D.C., Internship Education Fee
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education may charge and collect from each student registered at the institution a fee in an ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5135 - Barbara Jordan And Cesar Chavez Statues Fee; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge and collect from students registered at The University of Texas at Austin ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.514 - Student Fees Advisory Committee; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) The student fees advisory committee is established to advise the administration of The University of Texas at Austin on the type, level, and expenditure ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.515 - Student Union Fee
  (a) The governing board of each institution of higher education may charge each student registered at the institution a student union fee not to exceed ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.518 - University Center Fee; Midwestern State University
  (a) To the extent approved by the students under Subsection (b) of this section, the Board of Regents of Midwestern State University is hereby authorized ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.519 - Student Union Fee; North Texas State University
  (a) The board of regents of North Texas State University may levy a regular, fixed student fee against each student enrolled in that institution, as ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.520 - University Center Student Fee; Stephen F. Austin State University
  (a) To the extent approved by the students under Subsection (b), the board of regents of Stephen F. Austin State University may charge each student ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5201 - Recreational Sports Fee; Stephen F. Austin State University
  (a) The board of regents of Stephen F. Austin State University may charge each student enrolled at the university a recreational sports fee not to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.521 - Student Center Facility Fees; Texas A&M University System
  (a) The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may levy a regular, fixed student fee on each student enrolled in an educational ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.522 - Student Center Fees; Texas Southern University
  (a) The board of regents of Texas Southern University may levy and collect a student fee not to exceed $35 per student for each semester ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5221 - Recreational Facility Fee; Texas Southern University
  (a) The board of regents of Texas Southern University may levy and collect a recreational facility fee not to exceed $50 per student for each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5222 - Medical Services Fee; Texas Southern University
  (a) The board of regents of Texas Southern University may levy and collect a medical services fee not to exceed $35 per student for each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.523 - Student Center Fees; Texas State University System
  (a) To the extent approved by the students under Subsection (b) of this section, the board of regents of the Texas State University System may ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5241 - Student Union Fees; Texas Tech University System
  (a) The board of regents of the Texas Tech University System may impose a fee in a fixed amount on each student enrolled in a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.525 - Fees For Student Centers; Texas Woman's University
  (a) The board of regents of Texas Woman's University may levy a regular, fixed student fee of not less than $25 or more than $40 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.526 - Student Fees For University Centers; The University Of Houston
  (a) The board of regents of the University of Houston System may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $35 per student for each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.527 - Student Fees For University Center Facilities; The University Of Houston-Downtown College
  (a) The board of regents of the University of Houston System may levy a university center fee in an amount not to initially exceed $15 ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.528 - Recreational Facility Fee; The University Of Houston
  (a) The board of regents of the University of Houston System may charge each student enrolled at the University of Houston a recreational and wellness ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.529 - Student Union Fee; The University Of Texas At Arlington
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may levy a student union fee not to exceed $39 per student for each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.530 - Student Union Fees; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may levy and collect from each student a compulsory fee for operating, maintaining, improving, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.531 - Student Union Building Fees; The University Of Texas At Dallas
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $60 per student for each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.532 - Student Union Building Fees; The University Of Texas At San Antonio
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may levy a student union fee of not less than $20 or more than ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5321 - Transportation Fee; The University Of Texas At San Antonio
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may impose on each student enrolled at The University of Texas at San Antonio ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5322 - Intercollegiate Athletics Fee; The University Of Texas At San Antonio
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may impose a mandatory intercollegiate athletics fee on each student enrolled at The University ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.533 - Student Union Fees; The University Of Texas Of The Permian Basin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may impose a student union fee for the sole purpose of financing, constructing, operating, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5331 - Intercollegiate Athletic Fee; The University Of Texas Of The Permian Basin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may impose a mandatory intercollegiate athletics fee at The University of Texas of the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.534 - Arts And Performance Center Fee; The University Of Texas At Tyler
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may levy an Arts and Performance Center fee, not to exceed $20 per student ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5341 - Student Recreational Facility Fee; The University Of Texas At Tyler
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may impose a recreational facility fee on each student enrolled at The University of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5342 - Intercollegiate Athletics Fee; The University Of Texas At Tyler
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may impose an intercollegiate athletics fee on each student enrolled at The University of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5343 - Student Union Fee; The University Of Texas At Tyler
  (a) If authorized under Subsection (b), the board of regents of The University of Texas System may impose on each student enrolled at The University ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.535 - Student Union Fee; The University Of Texas At El Paso
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may levy a student union fee not to exceed $30 per student for each ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.536 - Fees For Student Health Services Building; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled in The University of Texas at Austin a fee ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.537 - Fees For Student Services Building; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin a fee ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5371 - Gregory Gymnasium Renovation Fee; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin a fee ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5372 - Aquatics Center Fee; The University Of Texas At Austin
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin a fee ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.538 - Recreational Sports Fee; Texas State University System
  (a) If approved by student vote at a system institution, the Board of Regents, Texas State University System, may charge each student enrolled at such ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.539 - Recreational Sports Fee; The Texas A&M University System
  (a) If approved by student vote at an institution, the Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System may charge students at such institutions ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5391 - Intercollegiate Athletics Fee; Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi
  (a) The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may impose an intercollegiate athletics fee on each student enrolled at Texas A&M University--Corpus ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5392 - Intercollegiate Athletics Fee; Texas A&M University--Kingsville
  (a) The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may impose an intercollegiate athletics fee on each student enrolled at Texas A&M University--Kingsville. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5393 - Intercollegiate Athletics Fee: Prairie View A&M University
  Text of section effective until September 1, 2013 (a) The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may impose an intercollegiate athletics fee ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5394 - Intercollegiate Athletics Fee: Tarleton State University
  (a) The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may impose an intercollegiate athletics fee on each student enrolled at Tarleton State University ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.540 - Student Center Fee, University Of Houston-Clear Lake
  (a) The Board of Regents of the University of Houston System may levy and collect a student center fee, not to exceed $40 per student ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.541 - Recreational Facility Fee; The University Of Texas At El Paso
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas at El Paso a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.542 - Student Union Building Fee; The University Of Texas-Pan American
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, the board of regents of The University of Texas System may levy a student union ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5421 - Sports Recreation And Wellness Facility Fee; The University Of Texas--Pan American
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas--Pan American a sports recreation ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.543 - Recreational Facility Fee; The University Of Texas At San Antonio
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas at San Antonio a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.544 - Recreational Facility Fee; The University Of Texas At Dallas
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas at Dallas a recreational ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.5441 - Student Recreational And Health Facilities Fee; Midwestern State University
  (a) The board of regents of Midwestern State University may charge each student enrolled at the university a recreational and health facilities fee not to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.545 - Fees For Continuing Education Courses
  (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education shall charge a reasonable fee to each person registered in a continuing education course at ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.546 - Student Union Fees; The University Of Texas At Brownsville
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may impose on each student enrolled at The University of Texas at Brownsville a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.550 - Wellness, Recreational, And Fitness Complex Fee; The University Of Texas At Brownsville
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas at Brownsville a wellness, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.6001 - Public Purpose
  An educated population being necessary to the social development and economic health of this state, the legislature finds and declares it to be an urgent ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.601 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Beneficiary" means a person who is entitled to receive benefits under a prepaid tuition contract. (2) "Board" means the Prepaid Higher ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.602 - Establishment Of Board; Function
  (a) The Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board is in the office of the comptroller. (b) The board shall administer the prepaid higher education tuition program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.603 - Sunset Provision
  The Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.604 - Termination Or Modification Of Program
  If the comptroller determines the program is financially infeasible, the comptroller shall notify the governor and the legislature and recommend that the program be modified ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.605 - Effect Of Termination Of Program On Contract
  (a) A prepaid tuition contract remains in effect after the program is terminated if, when the program is terminated, the beneficiary: (1) has been accepted ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.606 - Members Of Board; Appointment; Terms Of Office
  (a) The board consists of: (1) the comptroller; (2) two members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate; and (3) ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.607 - Duty In Recommending, Making, Or Confirming Appointments
  (a) In recommending, making, or confirming appointments to the board, the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and senate shall ensure that ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.608 - Restrictions On Board Appointment, Membership, And Employment
  (a) A person is not eligible for appointment as a member of the board if the person or the person's spouse: (1) is employed by ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.609 - Removal Of Board Member
  (a) It is a ground for removal from the board if a member: (1) violates a prohibition established by Section 54.608; (2) cannot because of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.610 - Training Of Board Members
  (a) Before a member of the board may assume the member's duties and before an appointed member may be confirmed by the senate, the member ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.611 - Board Officers
  (a) The comptroller serves as the presiding officer of the board. (b) The board shall appoint a secretary of the board whose duties may be ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.612 - Compensation And Expenses Of Appointed Board Members
  Appointed members of the board shall serve without pay but shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.613 - Meetings
  (a) The board shall hold regular quarterly meetings in the city of Austin and other meetings at places and times scheduled by the board in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.614 - Applicability Of Open Meetings Law And Administrative Procedure Law
  The board is subject to the open meetings law, Chapter 551, Government Code, and the administrative procedure law, Chapter 2001, Government Code. Added by Acts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.615 - Executive Director; Staff
  (a) The comptroller serves as the executive director of the board. (b) The employees of the comptroller selected by the comptroller for that purpose serve ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.616 - Program And Facility Accessibility
  (a) The board shall comply with federal and state laws related to program and facility accessibility. (b) The board shall prepare and maintain a written ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.617 - Public Interest Information And Complaints
  (a) The board shall prepare information of public interest describing the functions of the board and the board's procedures by which complaints are filed with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.618 - Powers Of Board
  (a) The board has the powers necessary or proper to carry out this subchapter. (b) The board may: (1) adopt an official seal; (2) adopt ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.619 - Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Program
  (a) Under the program, a purchaser may enter into a prepaid tuition contract with the board under which the purchaser agrees to prepay the tuition ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.620 - Prepaid Tuition Contract
  (a) The board may contract with a purchaser for the purchaser to prepay the tuition and required fees for a beneficiary to attend an institution ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.621 - Beneficiary
  (a) The beneficiary of a prepaid tuition contract must be younger than 18 years of age or 18 years of age or older and enrolled ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.622 - Types Of Plans
  The board shall make prepaid tuition contracts available for the: (1) junior college plan; (2) senior college plan; (3) junior-senior college plan; and (4) private ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.623 - Junior College Plan
  Through the junior college plan, a prepaid tuition contract shall provide prepaid tuition and required fees for the beneficiary to attend a public junior college ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.624 - Senior College Plan
  (a) Through the senior college plan, a prepaid tuition contract shall provide prepaid tuition and required fees for the beneficiary to attend a public senior ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.6245 - Graduate And Professional Degree Plans
  (a) The board may establish one or more plans to allow a person to prepay all or part of the tuition and required fees for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.625 - Junior-Senior College Plan
  Through the junior-senior college plan, a prepaid tuition contract shall provide prepaid tuition and required fees for the beneficiary to attend: (1) a public junior ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.6251 - Private College Plan
  Through the private college plan, a prepaid tuition contract shall provide prepaid estimated average private tuition and required fees for the beneficiary to attend a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.6252 - Contract For Additional Credit Hours
  (a) The board may permit the purchaser of a prepaid tuition contract for a senior college plan or a private college plan at any time ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.626 - Contract Payment
  (a) The board may provide for the receipt of payments under prepaid tuition contracts in lump sums or installment payments. If the board allows payments ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.6261 - Deferred Use Of Prepaid Credit Hours
  (a) A prepaid tuition contract must permit the beneficiary to elect to pay from another source the beneficiary's tuition and required fees for some or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.6262 - Application Of Unused Credit Hours To Graduate Tuition
  (a) If the beneficiary of a prepaid tuition contract registers in a graduate or professional degree program before the termination of the contract and the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.627 - Change Of Beneficiary
  (a) The purchaser of a prepaid tuition contract may designate a new beneficiary instead of the original beneficiary if the new beneficiary meets the requirements ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.628 - Conversion To Another Plan
  (a) A purchaser may convert a prepaid tuition contract from one plan to another plan. (b) The board may adjust the terms of the contract ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.629 - Verification Under Oath
  The board may require a purchaser to verify under oath a request to: (1) change a beneficiary; (2) convert a contract to another plan; or ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.630 - Promise Or Guarantee Of Admission
  This subchapter is not a promise or guarantee that a beneficiary will be: (1) admitted to any institution of higher education or private or independent ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.631 - Contract Termination
  (a) A prepaid tuition contract shall specify: (1) the name of any person who may terminate the contract; and (2) the terms under which the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.632 - Refund
  (a) A prepaid tuition contract shall specify: (1) the name of the person entitled to any refund if the contract is terminated; (2) the terms ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.633 - Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Scholarships For Students
  (a) To the extent money is available, the board or the board of a direct-support organization established by the board under Subsection (e) may award ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.634 - Establishment Of Trust Fund; College Savings Plan Account
  (a) The Texas tomorrow constitutional trust fund is created as a trust fund to be held with the comptroller. The fund consists of: (1) state ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.635 - Comptroller
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), the comptroller is the custodian of the assets of the fund. (b) The comptroller shall pay money from ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.636 - Investment Of Fund Assets
  (a) The board shall invest the assets of the fund. (b) The board may contract with private professional investment managers to assist the board in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.637 - Use Of Fund Assets
  The assets of the fund may be used only to: (1) pay the costs of program administration and operations; (2) make payments to institutions of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.6385 - Exemption From Securities Laws
  The registration requirements of The Securities Act (Article 581-1 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) do not apply to the sale of a prepaid tuition ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.639 - Exemption From Creditors' Claims
  (a) Money in the fund is exempt from claims of creditors, including claims of creditors of a purchaser, a beneficiary, or a successor in interest ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.640 - Actuarial Soundness Of Fund
  (a) The board shall administer the fund in a manner that is sufficiently actuarially sound to pay the costs of program administration and operations and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.6401 - Compliance With Limits On Contributions And Withdrawals
  The board shall monitor contributions to and withdrawals from the fund and any account within the fund to ensure that any applicable limits on contributions ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.641 - Statement Regarding Status Of Prepaid Tuition Contract
  (a) Not later than January 1 of each year, the board shall furnish without charge to each purchaser a statement of: (1) the amount paid ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.642 - Reports
  (a) Not later than December 1 of each year, the board shall submit to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, Legislative ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.643 - Confidentiality
  (a) Records in the custody of the board relating to the participation of specific purchasers and beneficiaries in the program are confidential. (b) Notwithstanding Subsection ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.644 - Tax Exempt Status Requirements
  (a) The provisions of this section are intended to meet the requirements of Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. (b) A payment ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.701 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Beneficiary" means an individual designated as the individual whose qualified higher education expenses are expected to be paid from the savings ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.702 - Powers And Duties Of Board
  (a) The board shall: (1) develop and implement the plan in a manner consistent with this subchapter; (2) select the financial institution or institutions to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.703 - Operation Of Plan; Accounts Held In Trust
  (a) The board shall administer a higher education savings plan to enable individuals to save money for the qualified higher education expenses of an individual ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.704 - Selection Of Financial Institution As Plan Manager
  (a) The board shall contract with one or more financial institutions to serve as plan manager and to invest the money in savings trust accounts. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.705 - Duties Of Plan Manager
  (a) A plan manager shall: (1) take all actions required to keep the plan in compliance with this subchapter, to ensure that the plan qualifies ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.706 - Contract Between Board And Plan Manager
  (a) A contract between the board and a financial institution to act as a plan manager under this subchapter must be for a term of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.707 - Savings Trust Accounts
  (a) An individual may open a savings trust account to save money for the payment of the qualified higher education expenses of a beneficiary. The ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.708 - Contributions And Withdrawals; Penalty For Nonqualified Withdrawal
  (a) Contributions to a savings trust account may be made only in cash or by electronic funds transfer. An employee of the state or a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.709 - Administration Of Accounts
  (a) A plan manager shall provide separate accounting for each savings trust account. (b) An account owner or beneficiary may not direct the investment of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.710 - Plan Limitations
  (a) Nothing in this subchapter or in any savings trust agreement entered into under this subchapter may be construed to: (1) give a beneficiary any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.711 - No Promise Of Admission, Enrollment, Or Graduation
  The opening or maintenance of a savings trust account does not promise or guarantee that a beneficiary of the account will: (1) be admitted to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.712 - Residency Not Required
  A savings trust account owner or beneficiary is not required to be a resident of this state. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1250, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.713 - Policies For Promotion And Disclosure Of Information
  The board shall adopt policies for promotion of the plan and the disclosure of plan information to savings trust account owners and beneficiaries in a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.714 - Confidentiality Of Records
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, all information relating to the plan is public and subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code. ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.715 - Termination Or Modification Of Plan
  If the comptroller determines that the plan is not financially feasible, the comptroller shall notify the governor and the legislature and recommend that the board ...
• Texas Education Code Section 54.716 - Effect Of Termination Of Plan On Savings Trust Agreement
  If the plan is terminated, the balance of each savings trust account shall be paid to the account owner, to the extent possible, and any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.01 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Institution of higher education" or "institution" has the meaning assigned to it by Section 61.003(7) of this code, except that "public ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.02 - Systemwide Revenue Financing Program
  (a) The governing board of a university system may establish a systemwide revenue financing program to provide funds to acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, enlarge, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.03 - Minority-Owned And Women-Owned Businesses
  (a) The board of regents of each institution of higher education shall make a good-faith effort to award to minority-owned and women-owned businesses: (1) contracts ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.04 - Cumulative Effect
  (a) The authority to issue bonds under this chapter is cumulative of all other authority to issue bonds. The governing board of an institution of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.11 - General Authority
  Each board is authorized to acquire, purchase, construct, improve, enlarge, equip, operate, and/or maintain any property, buildings, structures, activities, services, operations, or other facilities, for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.12 - Contracts For Joint Construction
  Each board may enter into contracts with municipalities or school districts for the joint construction of museums, libraries, or other buildings. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.13 - Authority To Issue Revenue Bonds
  (a) For the purpose of providing funds to acquire, purchase, construct, improve, enlarge, and/or equip any property, buildings, structures, activities, services, operations, or other facilities, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.14 - Terms And Conditions
  (a) The bonds may be issued to mature serially or otherwise within not to exceed 50 years from their date, and each board may provide ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.15 - Disposition Of Bond Proceeds
  Proceeds from the sale of the bonds may be used for paying interest on the bonds during the period of the acquisition or construction of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.16 - Board Responsibility
  (a) Each board shall be authorized to fix and collect rentals, rates, and charges from students and others for the occupancy, services, use, and/or availability ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.17 - Pledges; Parietal Rules; Types Of Fees; Additional Pledge Of Resources; Acquisition, Etc. Of Property; Revenue Bonds
  (a) Each board may pledge all or any part of its revenue funds to the payment of the bonds, including the payment of principal, interest, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.171 - Specific Institutions
  (a) The board of regents of the University of Houston may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, enlarge, and equip property, buildings, structures, and facilities for the ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1711 - Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi
  (a) The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, enlarge, and equip property, buildings, structures, and facilities for ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1712 - Texas A & M International University
  (a) The board of regents of The Texas A & M University System may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, enlarge, and equip property, buildings, structures, facilities, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1713 - The Texas A & M University System
  (a) In addition to the authority granted by Sections 55.13, 55.14, 55.17, 55.171, 55.1711, 55.1712, and 55.19 of this code, the board of regents of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1714 - The University Of Texas System
  (a) In addition to the authority granted by Sections 55.13, 55.14, 55.17, 55.172, and 55.19 of this code, the board of regents of The University ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1715 - The University Of Houston System
  (a) In addition to the authority granted by Sections 55.13, 55.14, 55.17, 55.171, and 55.19 of this code, the board of regents of the University ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1716 - Texas State University System
  (a) In addition to the authority granted by Sections 55.13, 55.14, 55.17, and 55.19 of this code, the board of regents of the Texas State ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1717 - University Of North Texas And Texas College Of Osteopathic Medicine
  (a) The board of regents of the University of North Texas may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, enlarge, or equip property, buildings, structures, facilities, roads, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1718 - Texas Woman's University
  (a) The board of regents of Texas Woman's University may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, enlarge, or equip property, buildings, structures, facilities, roads, or related ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.172 - The University Of Texas--Pan American
  (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may construct and equip academic buildings, structures, and facilities for The University of Texas--Pan ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1721 - The Texas A&M University System
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1722 - The University Of Texas System
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of The University of Texas System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1723 - The University Of Houston System
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the University of Houston System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1724 - Texas State University System
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the Texas State University System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1725 - University Of North Texas And University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth
  (a) The board of regents of the University of North Texas may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, enlarge, or equip property, buildings, structures, facilities, roads, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1726 - Texas Woman's University
  (a) The board of regents of Texas Woman's University may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, enlarge, or equip property, buildings, structures, facilities, roads, or related ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1727 - Midwestern State University
  (a) The board of regents of Midwestern State University may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, enlarge, or equip property, buildings, structures, facilities, roads, or related ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1728 - Stephen F. Austin State University
  (a) The board of regents of Stephen F. Austin State University may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, enlarge, or equip property, buildings, structures, facilities, roads, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.173 - The University Of Houston System
  (a) In addition to the authority granted by Sections 55.13, 55.17, 55.171, 55.1715, and 55.19 of this code, the board of regents of the University ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1731 - The Texas A&M University System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may issue in accordance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1732 - The University Of Texas System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of The University of Texas System may issue in accordance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1733 - The University Of Houston System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the University of Houston System may issue in accordance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1734 - Texas State University System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the Texas State University System may issue in accordance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1735 - University Of North Texas System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the University of North Texas System may issue in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1736 - Texas Woman's University
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of Texas Woman's University may issue bonds in accordance with ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1737 - Midwestern State University; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of Midwestern State University may issue in accordance with this ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1738 - Stephen F. Austin State University
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of Stephen F. Austin State University may issue in accordance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1739 - Texas Tech University System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the Texas Tech University System may issue in accordance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.17391 - Texas Southern University; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of Texas Southern University may issue in accordance with this subchapter ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.17392 - Texas State Technical College System
  (a) The board of regents of the Texas State Technical College System may issue in accordance with this subchapter and in accordance with a systemwide ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.174 - Texas Southern University
  (a) In addition to other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of Texas Southern University may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, enlarge, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1741 - The Texas A&M University System; Additional Revenue Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.17411 - The Texas A&M University System; Additional Revenue Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1742 - The University Of Texas System; Additional Revenue Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of The University of Texas System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1743 - The University Of Houston System
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the University of Houston System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1744 - Southwest Texas State University; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the Texas State University System may issue bonds in ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1749 - Texas Tech University System; Additional Revenue Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the Texas Tech University System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.17491 - Texas Southern University; Tropical Storm Allison
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of Texas Southern University may restore facilities and related infrastructure ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1751 - The Texas A&M University System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of The Texas A&M University System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1752 - The University Of Texas System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of The University of Texas System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.17521 - The University Of Texas At Dallas: Limitations On Certain Debt Service Reimbursement
  The state may not appropriate money to reimburse The University of Texas System for debt service on long-term obligations related to the construction of a ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1753 - University Of Houston System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the University of Houston System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1754 - Texas State University System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the Texas State University System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1755 - University Of North Texas System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the University of North Texas System may acquire, purchase, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1756 - Texas Woman's University
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of Texas Woman's University may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1757 - Midwestern State University; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of Midwestern State University may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1758 - Stephen F. Austin State University
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of Stephen F. Austin State University may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.1759 - Texas Tech University System; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the Texas Tech University System may acquire, purchase, construct, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.17591 - Texas Southern University; Additional Bonds
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of Texas Southern University may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.17592 - Texas State Technical College System
  (a) In addition to the other authority granted by this subchapter, the board of regents of the Texas State Technical College System may acquire, purchase, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.18 - Bonds Not Obligations Of The State
  Bonds issued by a board are payable solely from the revenues, income, receipts, or other resources of the board, as provided in this subchapter, and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.19 - Refunding Bonds
  Any bonds or notes at any time issued by a board may be refunded or otherwise refinanced by the issuance by the board of refunding ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.20 - Approval And Registration Of Bonds
  All bonds issued by any board, and the appropriate proceedings authorizing their issuance, shall be submitted to the Attorney General of the State of Texas ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.21 - Bonds Are Authorized Investments And Security For Deposits
  All bonds issued by any board are legal and authorized investments for all banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, insurance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.22 - Validation Of Bonds And Proceedings
  All revenue bonds heretofore approved by the attorney general and registered by the comptroller, which were issued, sold, and delivered by any board, and which ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.23 - Cumulative Effect Of Subchapter
  This subchapter shall be cumulative of all other law on the subject, but this subchapter shall be wholly sufficient authority within itself for the issuance ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.24 - Pledges Under Previous Laws To Remain In Effect
  (a) Where any revenues, income, receipts, or other resources of any board have been pledged to the payment of principal of and interest on any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.25 - Applicability Of Other Law; Conflicts
  Chapters 1201, 1202, 1204, and 1371, Government Code, apply to all bonds issued pursuant to this chapter; provided, however, that in the event of any ...
• Texas Education Code Section 55.41 - Refunding Bonds
  The governing board of any institution which has heretofore issued or which hereafter issues bonds or notes pursuant to the authority of Article VII, Section ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.001 - Short Title
  This Chapter may be cited as the Student Financial Assistance Act of 1975. Added by Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 2323, ch. 720, § 1, ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.002 - Declaration Of Policy
  The legislature, giving due consideration to the historical and continuing interest of the people of the State of Texas in encouraging deserving and qualified persons ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.003 - Definitions
  In this Chapter: (1) "Institution of higher education" has the same meaning as is assigned to it by Section 61.003 of this code. (2) "Governing ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.004 - Filing Fees In Suits To Collect Delinquent Student Loans
  Notwithstanding any other law, if an institution of higher education brings suit to collect or enforce the repayment of a delinquent student loan, the institution ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.011 - Resident Undergraduate Student Assistance
  (a) The governing board of each institution of higher education shall cause to be set aside not less than 20 percent of any amount of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.012 - Resident Graduate Student Assistance
  (a) The governing board of each institution of higher education shall cause to be set aside not less than 15 percent of any amount of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.013 - Information Regarding Financial Assistance Funded From Designated Tuition
  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall disseminate to each public or accredited private high school in this state information regard the financial assistance available ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.031 - Short Title
  The grant program authorized by this subsection shall be cited as the Texas Public Educational Grants Program and individual grants awarded pursuant to this program ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.032 - Purpose
  The purpose of this subchapter is to provide a program to supply grants of money to students attending institutions of higher education in Texas whose ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.033 - Source Of Program Funding
  (a) The governing board of each institution of higher education, including the Texas State Technical College System, shall cause to be set aside: (1) not ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.034 - Guidelines For Determining Eligibility And Awarding Grants
  (a) The governing boards of institutions of higher education shall establish guidelines to determine eligibility for awarding Texas Public Educational Grants subject to the limitations ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.035 - Type Of Grants To Be Awarded
  Texas Public Educational Grants shall not be awarded for any specific purpose other than meeting all or part of a student's demonstrated financial need. Added ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.036 - Transfer Of Grant Funds For Use As Matching Funds
  Each institution of higher education is authorized to transfer any or all of the funds set aside for the Texas Public Educational Grant Program to ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.037 - Priorities In Awarding Matching Funds
  In awarding matching funds to be used in conjunction with Texas Public Educational Grants, the coordinating board shall give first priority to those institutions and ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.038 - Restrictions And Return Of Transferred Funds
  The coordinating board may not use funds transferred to it pursuant to this subchapter from one institution to award grants to students of a different ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.039 - Full Use Of Funds
  At the end of a fiscal year, if the total amount of unencumbered funds that have been set aside under this subchapter by an institution ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.051 - Emergency Loans
  Each institution of higher education may establish an emergency loan program under which students are loaned money to pay tuition, fees, and the costs of ...
• Texas Education Code Section 56.052 - Eligibility
  (a) The governing board of each institution shall adopt rules establishing eligibility criteria. The rules must allow eligible students to obtain loans on the basis ..