Bill Text: TX HB1042 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to student access to public school instructional materials and technology.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB1042 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1042-Introduced.html
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| By: Blanco | H.B. No. 1042 | |
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| relating to student access to public school instructional materials | ||
| and technology. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 26.006, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (c) A student's parent is entitled to request that the | ||
| school district or open-enrollment charter school the student | ||
| attends allow the student to take home any instructional materials | ||
| used by the student. Subject to the availability of the | ||
| instructional materials, the district or school shall honor the | ||
| request. A student who takes home instructional materials must | ||
| return the instructional materials to school at the beginning of | ||
| the next school day if requested to do so by the student's teacher. | ||
| A school district or open-enrollment charter school must provide | ||
| the instructional materials to the student in printed book format | ||
| if the student does not have reliable access to technology at the | ||
| student's home. In this subsection, "instructional material" has | ||
| the meaning assigned by Section 31.002. | ||
| (d) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| must document each parental request made under Subsection (c) to | ||
| allow a student to take home instructional material used by the | ||
| student that the district or school denies. The documentation must | ||
| include the reasons for denying the request. Not later than the | ||
| 30th day after the date the district or school receives the request, | ||
| the district or school must report to the agency that the request | ||
| has been denied. | ||
| (e) Not later than September 1 of each year, the agency | ||
| shall submit an annual report to the legislature that includes the | ||
| number of parental requests made under Subsection (c) to allow a | ||
| student to take home instructional material used by the student | ||
| that each school district and open-enrollment charter school denied | ||
| and the reasons for the denial. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 26.006, Education Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2017-2018 school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2017. | ||
