Bill Text: TX HB4603 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to parental rights in public education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Public Education [HB4603 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4603-Introduced.html
| By: Buckley | H.B. No. 4603 | |
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| relating to parental rights in public education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Sections 26.0025, 26.0026, and 26.0062 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 26.0025. PARENTAL RIGHTS INFORMATION. (a) The agency | ||
| shall create and maintain a document that informs a parent of the | ||
| parent's rights regarding the education of the parent's child | ||
| provided under this chapter. | ||
| (b) The document must: | ||
| (1) include information regarding accessing the | ||
| contents of this chapter; | ||
| (2) be made publicly available in a prominent place on | ||
| the Internet website of the agency and each school district; and | ||
| (3) be provided to parents at the beginning of each | ||
| school year in an electronic or hard copy format. | ||
| Sec. 26.0026. RIGHT TO SELECT EDUCATIONAL SETTING. A | ||
| parent is entitled to choose the educational setting for the | ||
| parent's child, including public school, private school, or home | ||
| school. | ||
| Sec. 26.0062. REQUIRED DISCLOSURE REGARDING INSTRUCTIONAL | ||
| PLAN. (a) Each school district shall adopt a policy to make | ||
| available on the district's Internet website at the beginning of | ||
| each semester an instructional plan or course syllabus for each | ||
| class offered in the district for that semester. | ||
| (b) The policy adopted under Subsection (a) must: | ||
| (1) require each teacher to provide before the | ||
| beginning of each semester a copy of the teacher's instructional | ||
| plan or course syllabus for each class for which the teacher | ||
| provides instruction to: | ||
| (A) district administration; and | ||
| (B) the parent of each student enrolled in the | ||
| class; | ||
| (2) provide for additional copies of an instructional | ||
| plan or course syllabus to be made available to a parent of a | ||
| student enrolled in the class on the parent's request. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
