By Sibley S.B. No. 1323
75R2563 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to warning notices concerning students' unexcused absences
1-3 from public school.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.095, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 25.095. WARNING NOTICE. (a) A school district shall
1-8 notify a student's parent in writing if:
1-9 (1) [,] in a six-month period, the student has been
1-10 absent without an excuse five times for any part of the day; or
1-11 (2) in a four-week period, the student has been absent
1-12 without an excuse two times for any part of the day.
1-13 (b) The notice must state that if the student is absent
1-14 without an excuse for 10 or more days or parts of days in a
1-15 six-month period or for three or more days or parts of days in a
1-16 four-week period:
1-17 (1) the student's parent is subject to prosecution
1-18 under Section 25.093; and
1-19 (2) the student is subject to prosecution under
1-20 Section 25.094.
1-21 (c) [(b)] Notice is not required under this section if the
1-22 student is a party to a juvenile court proceeding for conduct
1-23 described by Section 51.03(b)(2), Family Code.
1-24 (d) [(c)] The fact that a parent did not receive a notice
2-1 under this section does not create a defense to prosecution under
2-2 Section 25.093 or 25.094.
2-3 (e) [(d)] In this section, "parent" includes a person
2-4 standing in parental relation.
2-5 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
2-6 school year.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.