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      Amend CSSB 4 as follows:
      SECTION     . Section 26.001, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
      Sec. 26.001. PURPOSE;NOTICE. (a) Parents are partners with
educators, administrators, and school district boards of trustees
in their children's education. Parents shall be encouraged to
actively participate in creating and implementing educational
programs for their children.
      (b)  In implementing Subsection (a), a school district shall
provide to the parent or guardian of each district student at the
beginning of each school year or on enrollment of the student after
the beginning of a school year a handbook that includes the
parental rights and responsibilities specified by this chapter. The
handbook:
            (1)  must be written on a fifth grade reading level;
and
            (2)  may be drafted by the district-or campus-level
planning and decision-making committee established under Subchapter
F, Chapter 11.
      (c)  The rights listed in this chapter are not exclusive.
This chapter does not limit a parent's rights under other law.
      (d) <(c)> Unless otherwise provided by law, a board of
trustees, administrator, educator, or other person may not limit
parental rights.
      (e) <(d)> Each board of trustees shall provide for procedures
to consider complaints that a parent's right has been denied.
      (f) <(c)> Each board of trustees shall cooperate in the
establishment of ongoing operations of at least one parent-teacher
organization at each school in the district to promote parental
involvement in school activities.
      SECTION     . Section 26.001, Education Code, as amended by
this Act, applies beginning with 1999-2000 school year, except that
for the 1999-2000 school year a school district shall distribute,
not later than November 1, 1999, the handbooks that would otherwise
be required to be distributed at the beginning of the school year
under Section 26.001(b), Education Code, as amended by this Act.