Bill Text: TX SB1445 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1445 (Prior Session Legislation)

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) 2021-03-24 - Referred to Education [SB1445 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB1445-Introduced.html

	87R11148 MM-D

	By: Seliger	S.B. No. 1445



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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 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
	shall grant a request made in accordance with Subsection (a).
	(c) Before the beginning of the 2021-2022 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) 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.