Bill Text: TX SB143 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public schools to designate certain uniform election dates as staff development days.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB143 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB143-Introduced.html
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| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 143 | |
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| relating to requiring public schools to designate certain uniform | ||
| election dates as staff development days. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 25.0814 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.0814. SCHOOL CAMPUS DESIGNATED AS POLLING PLACE. | ||
| (a) If a public school campus is selected for use as a polling place | ||
| under Section 43.031, Election Code, on the date of a presidential | ||
| general election, the school district or open-enrollment charter | ||
| school shall designate the day as a staff development day. | ||
| (b) The commissioner shall provide a waiver allowing the | ||
| minutes of instructional time required under Section 25.081(a) for | ||
| a school district or open-enrollment charter school campus to be | ||
| reduced by the number of minutes the district or school is required | ||
| to suspend instruction in compliance with this section. A waiver | ||
| under this subsection may not result in an inadequate number of | ||
| minutes of instructional time for students. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
