Bill Text: TX HB4407 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a parental option to request the return to or retention at a certain grade level for a public school student whose education was disrupted by the coronavirus disease pandemic.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to Public Education [HB4407 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4407-Introduced.html
87R10392 MM-D | ||
By: Guillen | H.B. No. 4407 |
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relating to a parental option to request the return to or retention | ||
at a certain grade level for a public school student whose education | ||
was disrupted by the coronavirus disease pandemic. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 28.02124 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 28.02124. OPTIONAL GRADE LEVEL RETENTION OR RETURN. | ||
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, due to | ||
the disruption in public education caused by the coronavirus | ||
disease (COVID-19) pandemic, a student's parent or legal guardian | ||
may submit to the school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
in which the student is enrolled a written request that for the | ||
2021-2022 school year the student be returned to or retained at the | ||
grade level in which the student was enrolled during the 2020-2021 | ||
school year. | ||
(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school: | ||
(1) shall grant a request under Subsection (a) | ||
received on or before June 30, 2021; and | ||
(2) may grant a request under Subsection (a) received | ||
after June 30, 2021, and before the first day of instruction. | ||
(c) As soon as practicable after the end of the 2020-2021 | ||
school year, each school district and open-enrollment charter | ||
school shall provide written notice regarding the option under this | ||
section to the parent or legal guardian of each student enrolled in | ||
the district or school. | ||
(d) Not later than June 30, 2022, each school district and | ||
open-enrollment charter school shall report to the agency the | ||
number of students who for the 2021-2022 school year were returned | ||
to or retained at the grade level in which the student was enrolled | ||
during the 2020-2021 school year under this section. | ||
(e) This section expires September 1, 2022. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2021. |