Bill Text: TX SB68 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to excused absences from public school for certain students to visit a professional's workplace for a career investigation day.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-24 - Effective immediately [SB68 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB68-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 68 | ||
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| relating to excused absences from public school for certain | ||
| students to visit a professional's workplace for a career | ||
| investigation day. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 25.087, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (b-8) and amending Subsection (d) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b-8) A school district may excuse a student from attending | ||
| school for a career investigation day to visit a professional at the | ||
| professional's workplace during the student's junior and senior | ||
| years of high school for the purpose of determining the student's | ||
| interest in pursuing a career in the professional's field, provided | ||
| that: | ||
| (1) the district may not excuse for this purpose more | ||
| than two days during the student's junior year and two days during | ||
| the student's senior year; and | ||
| (2) the district adopts: | ||
| (A) a policy to determine when an absence may be | ||
| excused for this purpose; and | ||
| (B) a procedure to verify the student's visit at | ||
| the professional's workplace. | ||
| (d) A student whose absence is excused under Subsection (b), | ||
| (b-1), (b-2), (b-4), (b-5), (b-7), (b-8), or (c) may not be | ||
| penalized for that absence and shall be counted as if the student | ||
| attended school for purposes of calculating the average daily | ||
| attendance of students in the school district. A student whose | ||
| absence is excused under Subsection (b), (b-1), (b-2), (b-4), | ||
| (b-5), (b-7), (b-8), or (c) shall be allowed a reasonable time to | ||
| make up school work missed on those days. If the student | ||
| satisfactorily completes the school work, the day of absence shall | ||
| be counted as a day of compulsory attendance. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 68 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 20, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 68 passed the House on | ||
| May 11, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 4, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
