Bill Text: TX HB773 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain releases of a student to the student's parent after school-initiated communication by a school district or open-enrollment charter school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-10 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB773 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB773-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Allen | H.B. No. 773 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 773: | |||
| By: Thompson of Harris | C.S.H.B. No. 773 | ||
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| relating to prohibiting certain releases of a student to the | ||
| student's parent after school-initiated communication by a school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 25.0875 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.0875. CERTAIN RELEASES OF STUDENT TO PARENT AFTER | ||
| SCHOOL-INITIATED COMMUNICATION PROHIBITED. (a) In this section, | ||
| "parent" includes a person standing in parental relation. | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a school district | ||
| or open-enrollment charter school may not release a student to the | ||
| student's parent before the end of the instructional day and after | ||
| the parent receives a school-initiated communication if the release | ||
| of the student is: | ||
| (1) a discipline management technique; or | ||
| (2) a reaction to the student's behavior that impedes | ||
| the student's ability to learn but does not: | ||
| (A) violate the student code of conduct under | ||
| Section 37.001; or | ||
| (B) require the student's teacher to remove the | ||
| student under Section 37.002. | ||
| (c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| release a student to the student's parent before the end of the | ||
| instructional day if the student's release occurs because the | ||
| student is: | ||
| (1) suspended under Section 37.005; or | ||
| (2) expelled under Section 37.0052, 37.007, or | ||
| 37.0081. | ||
| 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. | ||
