Bill Text: TX HB1754 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the placement and use of video cameras in certain self-contained classrooms or other settings providing special education services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-14 - Referred to Public Education [HB1754 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1754-Introduced.html
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By: Swanson | H.B. No. 1754 |
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relating to the placement and use of video cameras in certain | ||
self-contained classrooms or other settings providing special | ||
education services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 29.022, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (a-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) In order to promote student safety, on receipt of a | ||
request by a parent, trustee, governing body member, or staff | ||
member that complies with Subsection (a-1), a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school shall provide equipment, including | ||
a video camera, to the [ |
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request and in which a student who receives special education | ||
services in a self-contained classroom or other special education | ||
setting is enrolled. Each school or campus that receives equipment | ||
shall place, operate, and maintain one or more video cameras in each | ||
self-contained classroom or other special education setting to | ||
which the parent's child or the staff member is assigned, if the | ||
request was made by a parent or a staff member, and in which a | ||
majority of the students in regular attendance are: | ||
(1) provided special education and related services; | ||
and | ||
(2) assigned to a self-contained classroom or other | ||
special education setting for at least 50 percent of the | ||
instructional day. | ||
(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a): | ||
(1) a parent may request equipment only for classrooms | ||
or special education settings described by Subsection (a) to which | ||
the parent's child is assigned; | ||
(2) a trustee or governing body member may request | ||
equipment only with approval by the board of trustees or governing | ||
body; and | ||
(3) a staff member may request equipment only for | ||
classrooms or special education settings described by Subsection | ||
(a) to which the staff member is assigned and only with approval by | ||
the board of trustees or governing body. | ||
(b) A school or campus that places a video camera in a | ||
classroom or other special education setting in accordance with | ||
Subsection (a) shall operate and maintain the camera in the | ||
classroom or setting, as long as the classroom or setting continues | ||
to satisfy the requirements under Subsection (a), for the remainder | ||
of the school year in which the school or campus received the | ||
request. At the end of each school year, the school or campus must | ||
notify the requestor that operation of the video camera will not | ||
continue during the following school year unless the school or | ||
campus receives a new request authorized under this section for | ||
that school year. | ||
SECTION 2. 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. |