Bill Text: TX SB2158 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the Texas Education Agency to provide identification kits to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools for distribution to the parent or legal custodian of certain students.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB2158 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2158-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 2158 | ||
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| relating to requiring the Texas Education Agency to provide | ||
| identification kits to school districts and open-enrollment | ||
| charter schools for distribution to the parent or legal custodian | ||
| of certain students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.0531 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.0531. CHILD IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM. (a) The | ||
| agency shall provide to all school districts and open-enrollment | ||
| charter schools inkless, in-home fingerprint and DNA | ||
| identification kits to be distributed through the district or | ||
| school on request to the parent or legal custodian of any | ||
| kindergarten, elementary, or middle school student. | ||
| (b) A parent or legal custodian who receives a fingerprint | ||
| and DNA identification kit may submit the kit to federal, state, | ||
| tribal, or local law enforcement to help locate and return a missing | ||
| or trafficked child. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 33.057, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.057. DESTRUCTION OF FINGERPRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. | ||
| The agency shall adopt rules relating to the destruction of | ||
| fingerprints and photographs made or kept under Section 33.053 or | ||
| 33.054 [ |
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| SECTION 3. The Texas Education Agency is required to | ||
| implement Section 33.0531, Education Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| only if the legislature appropriates money specifically for that | ||
| purpose. If the legislature does not appropriate money | ||
| specifically for that purpose, the agency may, but is not required | ||
| to, implement that section using other appropriations available for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2158 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 28, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2158 passed the House on | ||
| May 25, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 113, Nays 32, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
