Amend CSSB 8 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 12.104(b), Education Code, as amended by Chapters 542 (S.B. 168), 887 (S.B. 1697), 915 (H.B. 3607), 974 (S.B. 2081), and 1046 (S.B. 1365), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:

(b)  An open-enrollment charter school is subject to:

(1)  a provision of this title establishing a criminal offense;

(2)  the provisions in Chapter 554, Government Code; and

(3)  a prohibition, restriction, or requirement, as applicable, imposed by this title or a rule adopted under this title, relating to:

(A)  the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) to the extent necessary to monitor compliance with this subchapter as determined by the commissioner;

(B)  criminal history records under Subchapter C, Chapter 22;

(C)  reading instruments and accelerated reading instruction programs under Section 28.006;

(D)  accelerated instruction under Section 28.0211;

(E)  high school graduation requirements under Section 28.025;

(F)  special education programs under Subchapter A, Chapter 29;

(G)  bilingual education under Subchapter B, Chapter 29;

(H)  prekindergarten programs under Subchapter E or E-1, Chapter 29, except class size limits for prekindergarten classes imposed under Section 25.112, which do not apply;

(I)  extracurricular activities under Section 33.081;

(J)  discipline management practices or behavior management techniques under Section 37.0021;

(K)  health and safety under Chapter 38;

(L)  the provisions of Subchapter A, Chapter 39;

(M)  public school accountability and special investigations under Subchapters A, B, C, D, F, G, and J, Chapter 39, and Chapter 39A;

(N)  the requirement under Section 21.006 to report an educator's misconduct;

(O)  intensive programs of instruction under Section 28.0213;

(P)  the right of a school employee to report a crime, as provided by Section 37.148;

(Q)  bullying prevention policies and procedures under Section 37.0832;

(R)  the right of a school under Section 37.0052 to place a student who has engaged in certain bullying behavior in a disciplinary alternative education program or to expel the student;

(S)  the right under Section 37.0151 to report to local law enforcement certain conduct constituting assault or harassment;

(T)  a parent's right to information regarding the provision of assistance for learning difficulties to the parent's child as provided by Sections 26.004(b)(11) and 26.0081(c) and (d);

(U)  establishment of residency under Section 25.001;

(V)  school safety requirements under Sections 37.108, 37.1081, 37.1082, 37.109, 37.113, 37.114, 37.1141, 37.115, 37.207, and 37.2071;

(W)  the early childhood literacy and mathematics proficiency plans under Section 11.185;

(X)  the college, career, and military readiness plans under Section 11.186; [and]

(Y) [(X)]  parental options to retain a student under Section 28.02124; and

(Z)  the adoption of a community engagement policy as provided by Section 26.0071.

SECTION ____.  Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 26.0071 to read as follows:

SECTION ____.  The heading to Section 28.022, Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 28.022.  NOTICE TO PARENT OF UNSATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE; CONFERENCES.

SECTION ____.  Section 28.022(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  The board of trustees of each school district shall adopt a policy that:

(1)  provides for at least two opportunities for in-person conferences during each school year [a conference] between each parent of a child enrolled in the district and the child's [parents and] teachers;

(2)  requires the district, at least once every 12 weeks, to give written notice to a parent of a student's performance in each class or subject; and

(3)  requires the district, at least once every three weeks, or during the fourth week of each nine-week grading period, to give written notice to a parent or legal guardian of a student's performance in a subject included in the foundation curriculum under Section 28.002(a)(1) if the student's performance in the subject is consistently unsatisfactory, as determined by the district.

SECTION ____.  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over another Act of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes.