By Green H.B. No. 1523 76R5928 BDH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a parent's access to certain public school classrooms. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Section 26.0061 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 26.0061. ACCESS TO CLASSROOMS. (a) A parent is 1-7 entitled to visit a classroom in the school district of the 1-8 parent's child. 1-9 (b) A school district may: 1-10 (1) require written notice from a parent before 1-11 visitation; and 1-12 (2) require the parent to check in at the school's 1-13 office before visiting the classroom. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.