Bill Text: TX SB1566 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain personal leave by school district teachers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Education [SB1566 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1566-Introduced.html
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| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 1566 | |
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| relating to the use of certain personal leave by school district | ||
| teachers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.416 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.416. ELECTION BY TEACHER TO USE UNPAID LEAVE. (a) | ||
| The board of trustees of a school district shall adopt a policy that | ||
| provides a classroom teacher employed by the district the option to | ||
| elect not to take the teacher's paid personal leave concurrently | ||
| with unpaid leave the teacher is entitled to take under the Family | ||
| and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. Section 2601 et seq.) for | ||
| an absence due to pregnancy or the birth or adoption of a child. | ||
| (b) A teacher who elects to take unpaid leave under this | ||
| section may not take paid personal leave, except in the case of a | ||
| medical or other emergency, until the 13th week following the date | ||
| the teacher returns from the unpaid leave. | ||
| 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. | ||
