Bill Text: TX SB1631 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Education [SB1631 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1631-Introduced.html
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| By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 1631 | |
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| 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. | ||
