88R3959 AMF-D
 
  By: Menéndez S.B. No. 2534
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring public schools to designate certain uniform
  election dates as staff development days.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Sections 25.0813 and 25.0814 to read as follows:
         Sec. 25.0813.  SCHOOL CAMPUS DESIGNATED AS POLLING PLACE.
  If a public school campus is selected for use as a polling place
  under Section 43.031, Election Code, the school district or
  open-enrollment charter school shall designate the day the campus
  serves as a polling place as a staff development day.
         Sec. 25.0814.  INSTRUCTIONAL TIME WAIVERS FOR CAMPUSES
  DESIGNATED AS POLLING PLACES. (a) The commissioner shall provide a
  waiver allowing the minutes of instructional time required under
  Section 25.081(a) for a school district or open-enrollment charter
  school campus to be reduced by the number of minutes the district or
  school is required to suspend instruction in compliance with
  Section 25.0813.
         (b)  A waiver under this section may not result in an
  inadequate number of minutes of instructional time for students.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
  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, 2023.