Bill Text: TX SB870 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to notifying parents of changes to school district policy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-01 - Referred to Education [SB870 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB870-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 870 | |
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| relating to notifying parents of changes to school district policy. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Sections 11.1514 and 11.1515 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.1514. ACCESS TO SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICIES. A school | ||
| district shall place a copy of each district policy adopted by the | ||
| board of trustees for the current school year, including a copy of | ||
| the student handbook, on file and available for public inspection | ||
| during regular business hours at: | ||
| (1) the central administration building of the | ||
| district; and | ||
| (2) each public library in the district. | ||
| Sec. 11.1515. NOTIFICATION BY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF CHANGES IN | ||
| POLICY. (a) A school district shall notify the parent of or other | ||
| person standing in parental relation to each student enrolled in | ||
| the district of a change to a district policy adopted by the board | ||
| of trustees. For purposes of this section, any alteration to the | ||
| wording of a district policy is a change to policy requiring | ||
| notification. | ||
| (b) A school district shall provide the notice required by | ||
| Subsection (a) by: | ||
| (1) publishing the information on the district's | ||
| Internet website, if the district maintains a website; and | ||
| (2) placing a copy of the notice on file and available | ||
| for public inspection during regular business hours at: | ||
| (A) the central administration building of the | ||
| district; and | ||
| (B) each public library in the district. | ||
| (c) The notice required by this section must: | ||
| (1) identify the district policy amended, including | ||
| the name and location of the policy; | ||
| (2) state the purpose of the change to district | ||
| policy; | ||
| (3) describe the change to district policy in plain, | ||
| nontechnical language; | ||
| (4) show the language of the old policy and the new | ||
| policy by underlining new language and bracketing and striking | ||
| through deleted language; and | ||
| (5) include the date the change to district policy was | ||
| adopted. | ||
| (d) The district shall provide the notice required by this | ||
| section not later than the 30th day after the date of the meeting at | ||
| which the change to district policy is adopted. The notice must | ||
| remain available as required by Subsection (b) until the start of | ||
| the next school year. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
