Bill Text: TX SB609 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to required independent school districts, home-rule school districts, and open-enrollment charter schools to comply with legally required policies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-13 - Filed [SB609 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB609-Introduced.html
| 2025S0004-1 11/15/24 | ||
| By: Paxton | S.B. No. 609 | |
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| relating to required independent school districts, home-rule | ||
| school districts, and open-enrollment charter schools to comply | ||
| with legally required policies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 11.012 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.012. REQUIREMENT REGARDING THE ADOPTION OF A | ||
| POLICY. Any requirement of law that imposes a duty to adopt a | ||
| policy imposes a duty on the school district, board of trustees, and | ||
| school district personnel to implement and act in accordance with | ||
| the policy requirements. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 12.013, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Any requirement of law that imposes a duty to adopt a | ||
| policy imposes a duty on the home rule school district, its | ||
| governing body, and school personnel to implement and act in | ||
| accordance with the policy requirements. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 12.056, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Any requirement of law that imposes a duty to adopt a | ||
| policy imposes a duty on the campus charter school, its governing | ||
| body, and its school personnel to implement and act in accordance | ||
| with the policy requirements. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 12.104, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) Any requirement of law that imposes a duty to adopt a | ||
| policy imposes a duty on the open-enrollment charter school, its | ||
| governing body, and its school personnel to implement and act in | ||
| accordance with the policy requirements. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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. | ||
