Bill Text: TX SB2242 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a policy adopted by school districts allowing parent volunteers on school district campuses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-29 - Co-author authorized [SB2242 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2242-Introduced.html
| 88R13715 BDP-D | ||
| By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 2242 | |
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| relating to a policy adopted by school districts allowing parent | ||
| volunteers on school district campuses. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 26.016 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 26.016. PARENT VOLUNTEERS. (a) In this section, | ||
| "parent volunteer" means a parent or guardian of a student enrolled | ||
| in the school district. | ||
| (b) Each school district shall adopt a policy to allow and | ||
| encourage parent volunteers at each campus in the district. The | ||
| policy: | ||
| (1) must allow a parent volunteer to volunteer on the | ||
| campus in the district in which the parent volunteer's child is | ||
| enrolled; | ||
| (2) must require the parent volunteer to provide the | ||
| documents needed for the district to perform a criminal history | ||
| background check as provided by Section 22.0835; | ||
| (3) must require the school district to develop and | ||
| implement training for parent volunteers that: | ||
| (A) ensures parent volunteers do not interfere | ||
| with instructional time; and | ||
| (B) includes guidelines for parent volunteers to | ||
| follow while at a campus in the district; | ||
| (4) must require a parent volunteer to complete the | ||
| training described by Subdivision (3) before the parent volunteer | ||
| is allowed to volunteer; | ||
| (5) may only prohibit parent volunteers from being | ||
| present on the campus in the district in which the parent | ||
| volunteer's child is enrolled during the administration of a | ||
| standardized test; | ||
| (6) may not prohibit parent volunteers from | ||
| volunteering if the parent volunteer has filed a grievance or | ||
| complaint against the district; and | ||
| (7) must require the school district to create and | ||
| maintain an Internet portal that: | ||
| (A) allows parent volunteers to submit | ||
| information for the district to complete a criminal history | ||
| background check; | ||
| (B) informs parent volunteers of volunteer | ||
| opportunities; and | ||
| (C) allows parent volunteers to register for | ||
| volunteer opportunities. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, each school district shall adopt a policy required by | ||
| Section 26.016, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2023. | ||
