Bill Text: TX HB358 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of visiting a military recruitment center or military installation.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-16 - Referred to Public Education [HB358 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB358-Introduced.html
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| By: Cyrier | H.B. No. 358 | |
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| relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of | ||
| visiting a military recruitment center or military installation. | ||
| 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 or a military | ||
| recruitment center or military installation for a branch of the | ||
| armed services of the United States 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 | ||
| or enlisting in a branch of the armed services, provided that: | ||
| (1) the district may not excuse for this purpose more | ||
| than two days during the student's junior year and two days 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; [ |
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| (B) a procedure to verify the student's visit at | ||
| the institution of higher education, military recruitment center, | ||
| or military installation; and | ||
| (C) a procedure that requires written permission | ||
| from a student's parent for a student to travel with a military | ||
| recruiter for a visit to a military recruitment center or military | ||
| installation. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies 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. | ||
