Bill Text: TX SB1032 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the right of a parent of a public school student to request that the student receive instruction or an assessment instrument in a printed format.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred to Education [SB1032 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1032-Introduced.html
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| By: Hall | S.B. No. 1032 | |
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| relating to the right of a parent of a public school student to | ||
| request that the student receive instruction or an assessment | ||
| instrument in a printed format. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 26.014 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 26.014. RIGHTS TO PRINTED MATERIAL. (a) A student's | ||
| parent or legal guardian is entitled to request that the school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school the student attends | ||
| provide instruction or administer an assessment instrument to the | ||
| student in a printed or other noncomputerized format. A request | ||
| under this section may not be unreasonably denied. | ||
| (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| must document each request made under Subsection (a), including, if | ||
| the request was denied, the reason for denial. Not later than the | ||
| 30th day after the date the district or school receives the request, | ||
| the district or school must report the request to the agency. | ||
| (c) Not later than September 1 of each year, the agency | ||
| shall submit an annual report to the legislature that includes the | ||
| number of requests made under Subsection (a) that each school | ||
| district and open-enrollment charter school received and, if any | ||
| requests were denied, the reasons for denial. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 26.014, Education Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies beginning with the 2019-2020 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, 2019. | ||
