Bill Text: TX SB2157 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of visiting an institution of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Education [SB2157 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2157-Introduced.html
86R745 SRS-D | ||
By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 2157 |
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relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of | ||
visiting an institution of higher education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 25.087(b-2), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b-2) A school district may excuse a student from attending | ||
school to visit an institution of higher education accredited by a | ||
generally recognized accrediting organization during the student's | ||
junior and senior years of high school for the purpose of | ||
determining the student's interest in attending the institution of | ||
higher education, provided that: | ||
(1) the district may not excuse for this purpose more | ||
than six [ |
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days during the student's senior year; and | ||
(2) the district adopts: | ||
(A) a policy to determine when an absence will be | ||
excused for this purpose; and | ||
(B) a procedure to verify the student's visit at | ||
the institution of higher education. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
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, 2019. |