Bill Text: TX HB170 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to providing notice to a parent or guardian regarding a positive coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test of a person assigned to a student's classroom.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB170 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB170-Introduced.html
| 87S20265 MWC-D | ||
| By: Zwiener | H.B. No. 170 | |
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| relating to providing notice to a parent or guardian regarding a | ||
| positive coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test of a person assigned | ||
| to a student's classroom. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.0311 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.0311. NOTICE OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19). | ||
| (a) The board of trustees of a school district or the governing | ||
| body of an open-enrollment charter school shall adopt a policy | ||
| requiring the district or school to provide written or electronic | ||
| notice to the parent or guardian of each student assigned to a | ||
| classroom in which a student or educator has tested positive for the | ||
| coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Notice required under this section | ||
| shall be made as soon as practicable after the district or school | ||
| becomes aware the student or educator is infected. The notice: | ||
| (1) must include the recommendations of the Centers | ||
| for Disease Control and Prevention for the treatment and prevention | ||
| of the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19); and | ||
| (2) may not identify the student or educator who | ||
| tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). | ||
| (b) The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
