84R12216 MEW-D
By: Rodriguez of Travis H.B. No. 3274
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing a parent of a public school student with
certain required notices in the parent's native language.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.052, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
(e-1) The notification to parents of students enrolled in
the district required under Subsection (e) must be written in a
parent's native language if that language is a second language for
at least 10 percent of the students attending the school campus in
which the parent's child is enrolled.
SECTION 2. Section 39.303, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The written notice to a student's parent or other person
standing in parental relationship required under Subsection (a)
must be written in the native language of the parent or person
standing in parental relationship if that language is a second
language for at least 10 percent of students attending the school
campus in which the student is enrolled.
SECTION 3. Section 39.305, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) The information required to be given to the parent or
other person standing in parental relationship of each student
under Subsection (c) must be written in the native language of the
parent or person standing in parental relationship if that language
is a second language for at least 10 percent of students attending
the school campus in which the student is enrolled.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.