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          AN ACT
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        relating to the availability of online testing for high school  | 
      
      
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        equivalency examinations. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 7.111, Education Code, is amended by  | 
      
      
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        adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (c)  The board by rule shall develop and deliver high school  | 
      
      
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        equivalency examinations and provide for the administration of the  | 
      
      
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        examinations online.  The rules must: | 
      
      
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                     (1)  provide a procedure for verifying the identity of  | 
      
      
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        the person taking the examination; and | 
      
      
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                     (2)  prohibit a person under 18 years of age from taking  | 
      
      
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        the examination online. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012  | 
      
      
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        school year. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1094 passed the Senate on  | 
      
      
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        April 6, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that  | 
      
      
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        the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2011, by the  | 
      
      
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        following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1094 passed the House, with  | 
      
      
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        amendment, on May 23, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 142,  | 
      
      
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        Nays 0, one present not voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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        Approved: | 
      
      
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                  Governor |