88R3959 AMF-D
By: Menéndez S.B. No. 2534
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring public schools to designate certain uniform
election dates as staff development days.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is
amended by adding Sections 25.0813 and 25.0814 to read as follows:
Sec. 25.0813. SCHOOL CAMPUS DESIGNATED AS POLLING PLACE.
If a public school campus is selected for use as a polling place
under Section 43.031, Election Code, the school district or
open-enrollment charter school shall designate the day the campus
serves as a polling place as a staff development day.
Sec. 25.0814. INSTRUCTIONAL TIME WAIVERS FOR CAMPUSES
DESIGNATED AS POLLING PLACES. (a) The commissioner shall provide a
waiver allowing the minutes of instructional time required under
Section 25.081(a) for a school district or open-enrollment charter
school campus to be reduced by the number of minutes the district or
school is required to suspend instruction in compliance with
Section 25.0813.
(b) A waiver under this section may not result in an
inadequate number of minutes of instructional time for students.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
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, 2023.