88R7104 JES-D
By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1631
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain student records required on a child's
enrollment in a public school or on a child's transfer from one
school district to another school district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 25.002(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) If a parent or other person with legal control of a child
under a court order enrolls the child in a public school, the parent
or other person or the school district in which the child most
recently attended school shall furnish to the school district:
(1) the child's birth certificate or another document
suitable as proof of the child's identity;
(2) a copy of the child's records from the school the
child most recently attended if the child has been previously
enrolled in a school in this state or another state, including for a
child who most recently attended a public school in this state, a
copy of the child's disciplinary record and any threat assessment
involving the child's behavior conducted under Section 37.115; and
(3) a record showing that the child has the
immunizations as required under Section 38.001, in the case of a
child required under that section to be immunized, proof as
required by that section showing that the child is not required to
be immunized, or proof that the child is entitled to provisional
admission under that section and under rules adopted under that
section.
SECTION 2. Section 25.036, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) In the case of a transfer under this section, a child's
school district of residence shall provide the receiving district
with the child's disciplinary record and any threat assessment
involving the child's behavior conducted under Section 37.115.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
school year.
SECTION 4. 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, 2023.