Bill Text: TX SB313 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain personal leave by school district teachers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB313 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB313-Introduced.html
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| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 313 | |
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| relating to the use of certain personal leave by school district | ||
| teachers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.416 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.416. ELECTION BY TEACHER TO USE UNPAID LEAVE. The | ||
| board of trustees of a school district shall adopt a policy that | ||
| provides a classroom teacher employed by the district the option to | ||
| elect not to take the teacher's paid personal leave concurrently | ||
| with unpaid leave the teacher is entitled to take under the Family | ||
| and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. Section 2601 et seq.) for | ||
| an absence due to pregnancy or the birth or adoption of a child. | ||
| 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. | ||
