Bill Text: TX SB2559 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring school districts to adopt procedures to ensure parents are informed regarding a student's mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Education [SB2559 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2559-Introduced.html
| By: Middleton | S.B. No. 2559 | |
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| relating to requiring school districts to adopt procedures to | ||
| ensure parents are informed regarding a student's mental, | ||
| emotional, or physical health or well-being. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection 26.0083 to read as follows | ||
| Sec. 26.0083. DISTRICT POLICY REGARDING NOTICE TO PARENTS. | ||
| (a) Each school district shall adopt procedures for notifying a | ||
| student's parent if there is a change in the student's services or | ||
| monitoring related to the student's mental, emotional, or physical | ||
| health or well-being and the school's ability to provide a safe and | ||
| supportive learning environment for the student. The procedures | ||
| must reinforce the fundamental right of parents to make decisions | ||
| regarding the upbringing and control of their children by requiring | ||
| school district personnel to encourage a student to discuss issues | ||
| relating to his or her well-being with his or her parent or to | ||
| facilitate discussion of the issue with the parent. The procedures | ||
| may not prohibit parents from accessing any of their student's | ||
| education and health records created, maintained, or used by the | ||
| school district. | ||
| (b) Except to the extent consistent with Section 38.004, a | ||
| school district may not adopt procedures that prohibit school | ||
| district personnel from notifying a parent about a student's | ||
| mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being, or a change in | ||
| related services or monitoring, or that encourage or have the | ||
| effect of encouraging a student to withhold from a parent such | ||
| information. | ||
| (c) Except to the extent consistent with Section 38.004 and | ||
| the school district's policy, School district personnel may not | ||
| discourage or prohibit parental notification of and involvement in | ||
| critical decisions affecting a student's mental, emotional, or | ||
| physical health or well-being. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
