Bill Text: TX SB784 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain public school students who are children of peace officers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2025-05-26 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB784 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB784-Comm_Sub.html
| By: King | S.B. No. 784 | |
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| relating to the transfer of certain public school students who are | ||
| children of peace officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 12A.004(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A local innovation plan may not provide for the | ||
| exemption of a district designated as a district of innovation from | ||
| the following provisions of this title: | ||
| (1) a state or federal requirement applicable to an | ||
| open-enrollment charter school operating under Subchapter D, | ||
| Chapter 12; | ||
| (2) Subchapters A, C, D, and E, Chapter 11, except that | ||
| a district may be exempt from Sections 11.1511(b)(5) and (14) and | ||
| Section 11.162; | ||
| (3) transfers of students who are the children of | ||
| peace officers under Section 25.0344; | ||
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| requirements adopted under Chapter 28; and | ||
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| sanctions under Chapters 39 and 39A. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 25.0344, Education Code, as added by | ||
| Chapter 322 (H.B. 1959), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2023, is amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding | ||
| Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (b) On request of a peace officer who is a parent of or | ||
| person standing in parental relation to a student, the board of | ||
| trustees of a school district or the board's designee shall | ||
| transfer the student to: | ||
| (1) another district campus; or | ||
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| state, regardless of whether the sending district and the receiving | ||
| district have entered into [ |
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| 25.035. | ||
| (e) Notwithstanding any other law, both the sending | ||
| district and the receiving district must approve a transfer under | ||
| this section without exception. | ||
| (f) A school district may not charge a tuition fee under | ||
| Section 25.038 to a student who transfers to the district under this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 12A.004(a), Education Code, as amended | ||
| by this Act, applies only to a local innovation plan adopted or | ||
| renewed on or after the effective date of this Act. A local | ||
| innovation plan adopted or renewed before the effective date of | ||
| this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the plan was | ||
| adopted or renewed, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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. | ||
