TITLE: Relating to State Board of Education oversight of regional education service center activities concerning certain curriculum management systems.

SUMMARY: Relating to State Board of Education oversight of regional education service center activities concerning certain curriculum management systems.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to State Board of Education oversight of regional education service center activities concerning certain curriculum management systems. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 8, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 8.0531 to read as follows: Sec. 8.0531. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS DEVELOPED BY A COLLABORATION OF REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE CENTERS. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter or Section 8.001(c), instructional lessons developed as part of a curriculum management system by a regional education service center, acting alone or in collaboration with one or more other regional education service centers, shall be subject to the same review and adoption process as outlined in Section 31.022. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.