Bill Text: TX HB1628 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain public school students who are children of peace officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-16 - Filed [HB1628 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1628-Introduced.html
89R760 CXP-D | ||
By: Noble | H.B. No. 1628 |
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relating to the transfer of certain public school students who are | ||
children of peace officers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 25.0344, Education Code, as added by | ||
Chapter 322 (H.B. 1959), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2023, is amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding | ||
Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: | ||
(b) On request of a peace officer who is a parent of or | ||
person standing in parental relation to a student, the board of | ||
trustees of a school district or the board's designee shall | ||
transfer the student to: | ||
(1) another district campus; or | ||
(2) any other [ |
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state, regardless of whether the sending district and the receiving | ||
district have entered into [ |
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25.035. | ||
(e) Notwithstanding any other law, a school district must | ||
approve a transfer under this section unless the district or the | ||
district campus to which the student seeks to transfer is at full | ||
student capacity or has more requests for transfers than available | ||
positions. | ||
(f) A school district may not charge a tuition fee under | ||
Section 25.038 to a student who transfers to the district under this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
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, 2025. |