| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to a behavior improvement plan imposed as a public school |
|
|
truancy prevention measure. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 25.0915(a-1), Education Code, is amended |
|
|
to read as follows: |
|
|
(a-1) As a truancy prevention measure under Subsection (a), |
|
|
a school district shall take one or more of the following actions: |
|
|
(1) impose: |
|
|
(A) a behavior improvement plan on the student |
|
|
that must be signed by an employee of the district [school], that |
|
|
the school district has made a good faith effort to have signed by |
|
|
the student or [and] the student's parent or guardian, and that |
|
|
includes: |
|
|
(i) a specific description of the behavior |
|
|
that is required or prohibited for the student; |
|
|
(ii) the period for which the plan will be |
|
|
effective, not to exceed 90 [45] school days after the date the |
|
|
contract becomes effective; or |
|
|
(iii) the penalties for additional |
|
|
absences, including additional disciplinary action or the referral |
|
|
of the student to a truancy court; or |
|
|
(B) school-based community service; or |
|
|
(2) refer the student to counseling, mediation, |
|
|
mentoring, a teen court program, community-based services, or other |
|
|
in-school or out-of-school services aimed at addressing the |
|
|
student's truancy. |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 |
|
|
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, 2019. |