Bill Text: TX HB2126 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing school districts to suspend classes on primary and general election days and requiring the commissioner of education to adjust funding for certain related absences.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-16 - Referred to Public Education [HB2126 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2126-Introduced.html
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| By: Klick | H.B. No. 2126 | |
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| relating to authorizing school districts to suspend classes on | ||
| primary and general election days and requiring the commissioner of | ||
| education to adjust funding for certain related absences. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 25.0813 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.0813. SUSPENSION OF CLASSES ON PRIMARY AND GENERAL | ||
| ELECTION DAY. (a) This section applies to elections held on the | ||
| primary election date described by Section 41.007, Election Code, | ||
| or the date for the general election for state and county officers | ||
| under Section 41.002, Election Code. | ||
| (b) A school district may suspend classes on the day of a | ||
| primary or general election. A district that intends to suspend | ||
| classes as provided by this section must notify the commissioner | ||
| not later than the first day of instruction for the school year in | ||
| which the election will be held. | ||
| (c) The authorization granted by this section does not | ||
| exempt a school district from the requirement under Section | ||
| 25.081(a) for a minimum number of days of instruction. A district | ||
| may extend its school calendar to compensate for days on which | ||
| classes are suspended as provided by this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 42.005, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-1) The commissioner shall adjust the average daily | ||
| attendance of a school district that suspends classes on the day of | ||
| the primary or general election as provided by Section 25.0813 and | ||
| that, on the day preceding election day, has more than the | ||
| district's average number of daily absences, so that the district | ||
| is not penalized under this section for that increase in the number | ||
| of absences. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
