Bill Text: TX HB2623 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to requiring school districts and certain facilities to assist students in making the transition back to school after certain prolonged placements outside of school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-19 - Left pending in committee [HB2623 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2623-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to requiring school districts and certain facilities to assist students in making the transition back to school after certain prolonged placements outside of school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-19 - Left pending in committee [HB2623 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2623-Introduced.html
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By: Allen | H.B. No. 2623 |
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relating to requiring school districts to assist students in making | ||
the transition back to school after certain prolonged placements | ||
outside of school. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 25.903 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 25.903. ASSISTANCE FOR A STUDENT TRANSITIONING BACK TO | ||
SCHOOL AFTER PROLONGED PLACEMENT OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL. (a) This | ||
section applies to the following facilities: | ||
(1) a disciplinary alternative education program; | ||
(2) a juvenile justice alternative education program; | ||
(3) a residential program or facility operated by or | ||
under contract with the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, a | ||
juvenile board, or any other governmental entity; | ||
(4) any residential treatment center; and | ||
(5) a public or private hospital. | ||
(b) Each school district shall assist a student enrolled in | ||
the district in making the transition back to school after being in | ||
a facility listed under Subsection (a) for a period equivalent to 30 | ||
instructional days or more during the school year. The assistance | ||
provided by the district must include development and | ||
implementation of a personalized transition service plan for each | ||
student who has been absent from school as described by this | ||
subsection. The principal of the school the student attends | ||
following the absence shall designate one or more appropriate | ||
school employees to develop the plan. To the greatest extent | ||
practicable, the plan must be developed in consultation with the | ||
student and the student's parent or person standing in parental | ||
relation to the student. To the extent appropriate for a particular | ||
student, the plan must include: | ||
(1) consideration of the best educational placement | ||
for the student; | ||
(2) provision of counseling, behavioral management | ||
assistance, or academic assistance by the school based on the | ||
student's academic, school reentry, and career and employment | ||
goals; and | ||
(3) assistance concerning access to community mental | ||
health or substance abuse services. | ||
(c) As soon as practicable after a facility listed under | ||
Subsection (a) has determined the date of a student's release from | ||
the facility, the facility shall give notice of that date to the | ||
school district in which a student intends to attend school | ||
following release. The agency shall give annual written notice to | ||
each facility of the facility's duty under this subsection. This | ||
subsection applies only to a student subject to compulsory | ||
attendance requirements under Section 25.085. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies to absences from public school | ||
beginning with the 2017-2018 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 September 1, 2017. |