85R2406 SRS-F
By: Cyrier H.B. No. 358
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of
visiting a military recruitment center or military installation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 25.087(b-2), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b-2) A school district may excuse a student from attending
school to visit an institution of higher education accredited by a
generally recognized accrediting organization or a military
recruitment center or military installation for a branch of the
armed services of the United States during the student's junior and
senior years of high school for the purpose of determining the
student's interest in attending the institution of higher education
or enlisting in a branch of the armed services, provided that:
(1) the district may not excuse for this purpose more
than two days during the student's junior year and two days during
the student's senior year; and
(2) the district adopts:
(A) a policy to determine when an absence will be
excused for this purpose; [and]
(B) a procedure to verify the student's visit at
the institution of higher education, military recruitment center,
or military installation; and
(C) a procedure that requires written permission
from a student's parent for a student to travel with a military
recruiter for a visit to a military recruitment center or military
installation.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
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, 2017.