Bill Text: TX HB391 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to student access to public school instructional materials and technology.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB391 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB391-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 391 | ||
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| relating to student access to public school instructional materials | ||
| and technology. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 26.006, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (c) A student's parent is entitled to request that the | ||
| school district or open-enrollment charter school the student | ||
| attends allow the student to take home any instructional materials | ||
| used by the student. Subject to the availability of the | ||
| instructional materials, the district or school shall honor the | ||
| request. A student who takes home instructional materials must | ||
| return the instructional materials to school at the beginning of | ||
| the next school day if requested to do so by the student's teacher. | ||
| A school district or open-enrollment charter school must provide | ||
| the instructional materials to the student in printed format if the | ||
| student does not have reliable access to technology at the | ||
| student's home. In this subsection, "instructional material" has | ||
| the meaning assigned by Section 31.002. | ||
| (d) The requirement under Subsection (c) to provide to a | ||
| student instructional materials in a prin | ||
| ted format does not | ||
| require a school district or open-enrollment charter school to | ||
| purchase printed copies of instructional materials that the | ||
| district or school otherwise would not purchase. A district or | ||
| school may comply with Subsection (c) by providing the student a | ||
| printout of the relevant electronic instructional materials. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 26.006, Education Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2019-2020 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, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 391 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 107, Nays 15, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 391 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 8, 1 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 391 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
