Bill Text: TX HB2546 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the scheduling of the first day of school for students by school districts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-04 - Left pending in committee [HB2546 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2546-Introduced.html
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By: Metcalf | H.B. No. 2546 |
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relating to the scheduling of the first day of school for students | ||
by school districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 12A.003(b), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) A local innovation plan must: | ||
(1) provide for a comprehensive educational program | ||
for the district, which [ |
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(A) innovative curriculum, instructional | ||
methods, and provisions regarding community participation, campus | ||
governance, and parental involvement; | ||
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and sustainable program funding; | ||
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that exceed the requirements of state and federal law; and | ||
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the board of trustees; and | ||
(2) identify requirements imposed by this code that | ||
inhibit the goals of the plan and from which the district should be | ||
exempted on adoption of the plan, subject to Section 12A.004. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 12A.004(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A local innovation plan may not provide for the | ||
exemption of a district designated as a district of innovation from | ||
the following provisions of this title: | ||
(1) a state or federal requirement applicable to an | ||
open-enrollment charter school operating under Subchapter D, | ||
Chapter 12; | ||
(2) Subchapters A, C, D, and E, Chapter 11, except that | ||
a district may be exempt from Sections 11.1511(b)(5) and (14) and | ||
Section 11.162; | ||
(3) state curriculum and graduation requirements | ||
adopted under Chapter 28; [ |
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(4) academic and financial accountability and | ||
sanctions under Chapters 39 and 39A; and | ||
(5) the first day of instruction requirements under | ||
Section 25.0811(a)(3). | ||
SECTION 3. Section 25.0811(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by this section, a school district | ||
may not begin instruction for students for a school year before the | ||
fourth Monday in August. A school district may: | ||
(1) begin instruction for students for a school year | ||
before the fourth Monday in August if the district operates a | ||
year-round system under Section 25.084; [ |
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(2) begin instruction for students for a school year | ||
on or after the first Monday in August at a campus or at not more | ||
than 20 percent of the campuses in the district if: | ||
(A) the district has a student enrollment of | ||
190,000 or more; | ||
(B) the district at the beginning of the school | ||
year provides, financed with local funds, days of instruction for | ||
students at the campus or at each of the multiple campuses, in | ||
addition to the minimum instructional time [ |
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(C) the campus or each of the multiple campuses | ||
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board of trustees of the district; and | ||
(D) a majority of the students at the campus or at | ||
each of the multiple campuses are educationally disadvantaged; or | ||
(3) begin instruction for students for a school year | ||
on or after the third Wednesday in August if the district is | ||
designated as a district of innovation under Chapter 12A. | ||
SECTION 4. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of | ||
this section, this Act applies beginning with the 2024-2025 school | ||
year. | ||
(b) Sections 12A.003 and 12A.004, Education Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, apply only to a local innovation plan adopted | ||
or renewed on or after the effective date of this Act. A local | ||
innovation plan adopted or renewed before the effective date of | ||
this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the plan was | ||
adopted or renewed, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. 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. |