Bill Text: TX HB391 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to student access to public school instructional materials and technology.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB391 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB391-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to student access to public school instructional materials and technology.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB391 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB391-Comm_Sub.html
By: Blanco, Guillen (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | H.B. No. 391 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2019; | ||
April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 15, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; | ||
May 15, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 391 | By: Powell |
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relating to student access to public school instructional materials | ||
and technology. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 26.006, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(c) A student's parent is entitled to request that the | ||
school district or open-enrollment charter school the student | ||
attends allow the student to take home any instructional materials | ||
used by the student. Subject to the availability of the | ||
instructional materials, the district or school shall honor the | ||
request. A student who takes home instructional materials must | ||
return the instructional materials to school at the beginning of | ||
the next school day if requested to do so by the student's teacher. | ||
A school district or open-enrollment charter school must provide | ||
the instructional materials to the student in printed format if the | ||
student does not have reliable access to technology at the | ||
student's home. In this subsection, "instructional material" has | ||
the meaning assigned by Section 31.002. | ||
(d) The requirement under Subsection (c) to provide to a | ||
student instructional materials in a printed format does not | ||
require a school district or open-enrollment charter school to | ||
purchase printed copies of instructional materials that the | ||
district or school otherwise would not purchase. A district or | ||
school may comply with Subsection (c) by providing the student a | ||
printout of the relevant electronic instructional materials. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 26.006, Education Code, as amended by | ||
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. | ||
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