Bill Text: TX SB49 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to school district requirements regarding parental notification in connection with disciplinary alternative education programs.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB49 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB49-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 49 | ||
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| relating to school district requirements regarding parental | ||
| notification in connection with disciplinary alternative education | ||
| programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.008, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (l-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (l-1) A school district shall provide the parents of a | ||
| student removed to a disciplinary alternative education program | ||
| with written notice of the district's obligation under Subsection | ||
| (l) to provide the student with an opportunity to complete | ||
| coursework required for graduation. The notice must: | ||
| (1) include information regarding all methods | ||
| available for completing the coursework; and | ||
| (2) state that the methods are available at no cost to | ||
| the student. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 49 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2011, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 49 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, | ||
| Nays 0, one present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
