Bill Text: TX HB82 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to excused absences from public school for certain students to visit a professional's workplace for a career investigation day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-06 - Filed [HB82 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB82-Introduced.html
| By: Murr | H.B. No. 82 | |
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| relating to excused absences from public school for certain | ||
| students to visit a professional's workplace for a career | ||
| investigation day. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 25.087, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (b-8) and amending Subsection (d) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b-8) A school district may excuse a student from attending | ||
| school for a career investigation day to visit a professional at the | ||
| professional's workplace during the student's junior and senior | ||
| years of high school for the purpose of determining the student's | ||
| interest in pursuing a career in the professional's field, 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 may be | ||
| excused for this purpose; and | ||
| (B) a procedure to verify that the student's | ||
| visit at the professional's workplace did occur. | ||
| (d) A student whose absence is excused under Subsection (b), | ||
| (b-1), (b-2), (b-4), (b-5), (b-8), or (c) may not be penalized for | ||
| that absence and shall be counted as if the student attended school | ||
| for purposes of calculating the average daily attendance of | ||
| students in the school district. A student whose absence is excused | ||
| under Subsection (b), (b-1), (b-2), (b-4), (b-5), (b-8), or (c) | ||
| shall be allowed a reasonable time to make up school work missed on | ||
| those days. If the student satisfactorily completes the school | ||
| work, the day of absence shall be counted as a day of compulsory | ||
| attendance. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
| 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 January 1, 2022. | ||
