Bill Text: TX HB1137 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | 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) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB1137 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1137-Introduced.html
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| By: Leo Wilson | H.B. No. 1137 | |
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| 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, 2026: | ||
| (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, 2026, a member of the board of | ||
| trustees of a school district who takes the oath of office before | ||
| January 1, 2026, 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, 2025. | ||
