86R11226 SOS-D
By: Seliger S.B. No. 1398
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a behavior improvement plan imposed as a public school
truancy prevention measure.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 25.0915(a-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a-1) As a truancy prevention measure under Subsection (a),
a school district shall take one or more of the following actions:
(1) impose:
(A) a behavior improvement plan on the student
that must be signed by an employee of the district [school], that
the school district has made a good faith effort to have signed by
the student or [and] the student's parent or guardian, and that
includes:
(i) a specific description of the behavior
that is required or prohibited for the student;
(ii) the period for which the plan will be
effective, not to exceed 90 [45] school days after the date the
contract becomes effective; or
(iii) the penalties for additional
absences, including additional disciplinary action or the referral
of the student to a truancy court; or
(B) school-based community service; or
(2) refer the student to counseling, mediation,
mentoring, a teen court program, community-based services, or other
in-school or out-of-school services aimed at addressing the
student's truancy.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
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, 2019.