78R5306 KKA-D

By:  Howard                                                       H.B. No. 1073



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to parental notice of supplemental presentations at public 
schools.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding 
Section 26.0101 to read as follows:
	Sec. 26.0101.  NOTICE OF SUPPLEMENTAL PRESENTATIONS.  (a)  A 
school district shall notify each parent of a student enrolled in 
the district of any presentation or instructional program to be 
presented to the student by a person not regularly employed by the 
district.  For purposes of this section, a substitute teacher is 
considered to be regularly employed by the district.
	(b)  A school district shall send notice not later than the 
fifth working day before the presentation or instructional program.  
The notice must include:
		(1)  a description of the presentation or program; and                 
		(2)  the name and any professional affiliation of the 
person making the presentation or providing the program.
	SECTION 2.   This Act applies beginning with the 2003-2004 
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, 2003.