By: Patrick, et al. S.B. No. 1406
 
  (Toth, Bohac, Harper-Brown, Creighton, Branch)
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
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.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.