TITLE: Relating to requiring public schools to designate certain uniform election dates as staff development days.

SUMMARY: Relating to requiring public schools to designate certain uniform election dates as staff development days.

FULL TEXT:
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.