Bill Text: TX HB1216 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to required attendance at a dropout prevention seminar by a student older than the age of compulsory school attendance who intends to drop out of school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-01 - Referred to Public Education [HB1216 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1216-Introduced.html
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By: Miles | H.B. No. 1216 |
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relating to required attendance at a dropout prevention seminar by | ||
a student older than the age of compulsory school attendance who | ||
intends to drop out of school. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 25.0851 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 25.0851. REQUIRED ATTENDANCE AT DROPOUT PREVENTION | ||
SEMINAR. (a) This section does not apply to a student who, under | ||
Section 25.086, is exempt from the requirements of compulsory | ||
school attendance. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Section 25.085, a student who has | ||
reached the student's 18th birthday but who is under 21 years of age | ||
remains subject to the requirements of compulsory school attendance | ||
until the student attends a dropout prevention seminar provided by | ||
the school district in which the student attends school. The | ||
student must attend the full seminar. | ||
(c) A seminar under Subsection (b) must: | ||
(1) be offered: | ||
(A) at each high school in a school district; | ||
(B) for at least four hours; and | ||
(C) outside of the regular school day; and | ||
(2) satisfy guidelines established by commissioner | ||
rule. | ||
(d) A seminar under this section may include lectures | ||
offered or discussions led by members of the local business | ||
community whose businesses employ high school or college graduates | ||
or by students who have dropped out of and returned to school. | ||
(e) A student to whom Section 25.085(f) applies may not | ||
discontinue attending school before the end of a school year by | ||
complying with this section. | ||
(f) Notwithstanding Section 11.158(b), the board of | ||
trustees of a school district may charge a student a fee to attend a | ||
seminar under this section. The amount of the fee may not exceed | ||
$45. The district shall refund the amount of the fee to a student | ||
who graduates from the high school at which the student attends the | ||
seminar. | ||
(g) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary for the | ||
administration of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 25.0851, Education Code, as added by | ||
this Act, does not apply to a student who dropped out of public | ||
school before the 2011-2012 school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2011. |