81R31743 CAS-F
By: Shapiro S.B. No. 1364
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1364:
By: Shelton C.S.S.B. No. 1364
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to minimum public school attendance for class credit,
including limiting school day interruptions that affect such
attendance.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 25.083, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 25.083. SCHOOL DAY INTERRUPTIONS. (a) The board of
trustees of each school district shall adopt and strictly enforce a
policy limiting interruptions of classes during the school day for
nonacademic activities such as announcements and sales promotions.
At a minimum, the policy must limit announcements other than
emergency announcements to once during the school day.
(b) The board of trustees of each school district shall
adopt and strictly enforce a policy limiting the removal of
students from class for remedial tutoring or test preparation. A
district may not remove a student from a regularly scheduled class
for remedial tutoring or test preparation if, as a result of the
removal, the student would miss more than 10 percent of the school
days on which the class is offered, unless the student's parent or
another person standing in parental relation to the student
provides to the district written consent for removal from class for
such purpose.
SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 25.092, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by this section, a student in any
grade level from kindergarten through grade 12 may not be given
credit for a class unless the student is in attendance for at least
90 percent of the days the class is offered.
SECTION 3. Section 29.0821, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) Section 25.092 does not apply to a student's attendance
and nonattendance in a flexible year program under this section.
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2009-2010
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, 2009.