Amend CSSB 27 (senate committee report) as follows:
(1) In the recital to SECTION 7 of the bill (page 3, line 40), strike "Section 21.416" and substitute "Sections 21.416 and 21.417".
(2) In SECTION 7 of the bill, immediately following added Section 21.416, Education Code (page 4, between lines 10 and 11), insert the following:
Sec. 21.417. ELECTION BY TEACHER TO USE UNPAID LEAVE. The board of trustees of a school district shall adopt a policy that provides a classroom teacher employed by the district the option to elect not to take the teacher's paid personal leave concurrently with unpaid leave the teacher is entitled to take under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. Section 2601 et seq.) for an absence due to pregnancy or the birth or adoption of a child.
(3) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 21.417, Education Code, as added by this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.