Bill Text: TX HB3136 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of visiting an institution of higher education.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-20 - Referred to Public Education [HB3136 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3136-Introduced.html
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| By: Harris Davila | H.B. No. 3136 | |
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| relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of | ||
| visiting an institution of higher education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 25.087(b-2), Education Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b-2) A school district may excuse a student from attending | ||
| school to visit an institution of higher education accredited by a | ||
| generally recognized accrediting organization during the student's | ||
| junior and senior years of high school for the purpose of | ||
| determining the student's interest in attending the institution of | ||
| higher education, provided that: | ||
| (1) the district may not excuse for this purpose more | ||
| than two days during the student's junior year and four [ |
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| during the student's senior year; and | ||
| (2) the district adopts: | ||
| (A) a policy to determine when an absence will be | ||
| excused for this purpose; and | ||
| (B) a procedure to verify the student's visit at | ||
| the institution of higher education. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
