Bill Text: TX HB1270 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of visiting a military recruitment center.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-04-26 - Referred to Vet Affairs & Border Security [HB1270 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1270-Engrossed.html
85R2404 SRS-D | ||
By: Smithee, Blanco, Cyrier, Lucio III, | H.B. No. 1270 | |
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relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of | ||
visiting a military recruitment center. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 25.087(b-2), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b-2) A school district may excuse a student from attending | ||
school to visit an institution of higher education accredited by a | ||
generally recognized accrediting organization or a military | ||
recruitment center for a branch of the armed services of the United | ||
States during the student's junior and senior years of high school | ||
for the purpose of determining the student's interest in attending | ||
the institution of higher education or enlisting in a branch of the | ||
armed services, provided that: | ||
(1) the district may not excuse for this purpose more | ||
than two days during the student's junior year and two days during | ||
the student's senior year; and | ||
(2) the district adopts: | ||
(A) a policy to determine when an absence will be | ||
excused for this purpose; and | ||
(B) a procedure to verify the student's visit at | ||
the institution of higher education or military recruitment center. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
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, 2017. |