TITLE: Instructing the enrolling clerk of the senate to make corrections to S.B. No. 2.

SUMMARY: Instructing the enrolling clerk of the senate to make corrections to S.B. No. 2.

FULL TEXT:
WHEREAS, Senate Bill No. 2 has been adopted by the senate and the house of representatives and is being prepared for enrollment; and WHEREAS, The bill contains technical errors that should be corrected; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED by the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas, That the enrolling clerk of the senate be instructed to correct Senate Bill No. 2 as follows: (1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly: SECTION.Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 33.088 to read as follows: Sec. 33.088. PARTICIPATION IN LEAGUE CONTESTS BY SPECIALTY HIGH SCHOOL. (a) In this section: (1) "Division" includes academics, athletics, or music divisions of league contests. (2) "Specialty high school" means the high school of an open-enrollment charter school that: (A) enrolls students without regard to the attendance zones of the school district in which the high school is located; and (B) is determined by the University Interscholastic League to specialize in a division of league contests. (3) "League" means the University Interscholastic League. (b) To ensure fair competition, the league shall adopt rules governing participation in league contests by students attending a specialty high school. (c) The league rules adopted under Subsection (b) must require that, for any division of league contests that a specialty high school emphasizes, the school will be assigned to the conference with the largest student enrollment, except that the rules may provide for reasonable exceptions from that requirement based on travel, availability of participant schools, or other criteria. (d) League rules adopted under Subsection (b) must apply beginning with the 2013-2014 school year. This subsection expires August 31, 2014. (2) Strike SECTION 48 of the bill (page 46, lines 16-23), repealing provisions of the Education Code, and substitute the following appropriately numbered SECTION: SECTION.The following provisions of the Education Code are repealed: (1) Subsection (b), Section 12.1055; (2) Subsection (b), Section 12.113; and (3) Subsection (b), Section 12.1161.