88R7104 JES-D
 
  By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1631
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.