Bill Text: TX SB787 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement to report through the Public Education Information Management System the number of student deaths occurring on a school district or open-enrollment charter school campus.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-07 - Referred to Education K-16 [SB787 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB787-Introduced.html
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| By: Alvarado | S.B. No. 787 | |
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| relating to a requirement to report through the Public Education | ||
| Information Management System the number of student deaths | ||
| occurring on a school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| campus. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 48.009(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) The commissioner by rule shall require each school | ||
| district and open-enrollment charter school to report through the | ||
| Public Education Information Management System information | ||
| regarding: | ||
| (1) the number of students enrolled in the district or | ||
| school who are identified as having dyslexia; | ||
| (2) the availability of school counselors, including | ||
| the number of full-time equivalent school counselors, at each | ||
| campus; | ||
| (3) the availability of expanded learning | ||
| opportunities as described by Section 33.252 at each campus; | ||
| (4) the total number of students, other than students | ||
| described by Subdivision (5), enrolled in the district or school | ||
| with whom the district or school, as applicable, used intervention | ||
| strategies, as that term is defined by Section 26.004, at any time | ||
| during the year for which the report is made; | ||
| (5) the total number of students enrolled in the | ||
| district or school to whom the district or school provided aids, | ||
| accommodations, or services under Section 504, Rehabilitation Act | ||
| of 1973 (29 U.S.C. Section 794), at any time during the year for | ||
| which the report is made; | ||
| (6) disaggregated by campus and grade, the number of: | ||
| (A) children who are required to attend school | ||
| under Section 25.085, are not exempted under Section 25.086, and | ||
| fail to attend school without excuse for 10 or more days or parts of | ||
| days within a six-month period in the same school year; | ||
| (B) students for whom the district initiates a | ||
| truancy prevention measure under Section 25.0915(a-4); and | ||
| (C) parents of students against whom an | ||
| attendance officer or other appropriate school official has filed a | ||
| complaint under Section 25.093; [ |
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| (7) the number of students who are enrolled in a high | ||
| school equivalency program, a dropout recovery school, or an adult | ||
| education program provided under a high school diploma and industry | ||
| certification charter school program provided by the district or | ||
| school and who: | ||
| (A) are at least 18 years of age and under 26 | ||
| years of age; | ||
| (B) have not previously been reported to the | ||
| agency as dropouts; and | ||
| (C) enroll in the program at the district or | ||
| school after not attending school for a period of at least nine | ||
| months; and | ||
| (8) the number of student deaths that occurred on each | ||
| district or school campus during the year for which the report is | ||
| made. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
