Bill Text: TX SB981 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 981

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a handbook on parental rights in education and training requirements on parental rights in education for a member of the board of trustees of a school district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Education [SB981 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB981-Introduced.html

	88R6537 JES-D

	By: Paxton	S.B. No. 981



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a handbook on parental rights in education and training
	requirements on parental rights in education for a member of the
	board of trustees of a school district.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 11.159, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (b-2) to read as follows:
	(b-2) The State Board of Education shall require a trustee
	to complete training on the rights of a parent regarding the
	education of the parent's child. The state board, with assistance
	from the agency, shall develop the curriculum and materials for the
	training.
	SECTION 2. Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding
	Section 26.0025 to read as follows:
	Sec. 26.0025. PARENTAL RIGHTS HANDBOOK. (a) The agency
	shall create and maintain a handbook that explains all rights of a
	parent regarding the education of the parent's child, including a
	student's rights that the parent may enforce on the student's
	behalf.
	(b) The handbook must be:
	(1) written in plain language;
	(2) updated on an annual basis to reflect any relevant
	changes in applicable law or agency guidance; and
	(3) made publicly available in a searchable format on
	the agency's Internet website.
	SECTION 3. (a) Not later than January 1, 2024:
	(1) the State Board of Education shall develop and
	make available the training required by Section 11.159(b-2),
	Education Code, as added by this Act; and
	(2) the Texas Education Agency shall create the
	parental rights in education handbook required by Section 26.0025,
	Education Code, as added by this Act.
	(b) Not later than April 1, 2024, a member of the board of
	trustees of a school district who takes the oath of office before
	January 1, 2024, shall complete the training on parental rights in
	education required by Section 11.159(b-2), Education Code, as added
	by this Act.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.