Bill Number

Author

Caption

Summary

Notes

HB 579

Burns

Relating to procedures for the alternative assessment of certain public-school students that receive special education services and alternative accountability plans for certain campuses.

AS filed: This bill would allow the parent or person standing in parental relation to a student with significant cognitive disabilities to request that their student be exempted from the administration of an alternative assessment. If requested, the student's admission, review and dismissal (ARD) committee would work with the parent to determine if the student should be exempted. If exempted, the student would then be assessed using an alternative method. The commissioner would develop an alternative assessment method for each applicable subject and adopt rules to necessary to implement the alternative assessment methods. Specialized support campuses would be identified as those campuses in which 90% of student receive special education services and a significant percentage of the students either take an alternative assessment or are unable to provide an authentic academic response on the assessment instrument. The commissioner, along with stakeholders, would establish appropriate accountability guidelines for specialized support campuses to create an alternative accountability plan based on the specific student population served by the campus. By December 1, 2026, the Commissioner would submit to state leaders a report regarding the evaluation of specialized support campuses.

Is a refile from last session; Disability Rights registered against.

HB 890

Bell

Relating to school district hearings regarding complaints

Complains must be given an initial administrative hearing, an opportunity to appeal the decision from the hearing, and a resolution within 120 calendar days.

HB 920

Klick

Relating to the use of medication designated for treatment of respiratory distress on public and private school campuses

The bill would expand the authorization of school personnel and volunteers that may provide respiratory distress medication, like albuterol. An advisory committee would advise on the training for personnel and volunteers to administer the medication. The bill would remove the requirement that a school nurse must have written notification from a parent or guardian that a student has been diagnosed as having asthma. ----Schools would be required to refer the student to the student’s primary care physician on the day medication is administered and inform the student’s parent or guardian of the referral, if the school does not have notification from the student’s parent or guardian on an asthma diagnosis. ----- Schools would be required to report specific information within 10 days on the administration of the medication for respiratory distress. The bill would also permit individuals who act in good faith in administering, ordering, supervising, processing, prescribing, or dipending any respiratory distress medication, to be immune from civil or criminal liability or disciplinary action

Same as SB 294 Johnson that was heard last week in Senate Education

HB 1002

Price

Relating to the membership of a public school concussion oversight team and the removal of a public school student from an interscholastic athletic activity on the basis of a suspected concussion.

Adds physical therapist to the concussion oversight team as long as the PT has gone through concussion training as required in statute

HB 1067

VanDeaver

Relating to the detachment and annexation of school district territory by petition.

Requires hearings on annexation/detachment of parts of a school district to be presented to each board of trustees the annexation impacts 30 days after the first petition is submitted/requested. Within 10 days the board of trustees must post the info publicly and within 15 days of the hearing, must share any impact to the community. If the board fails to adopt changes within 45 days it is considered to be rejected.

HB 1212

Jetton

Relating to verification of excused absences from public school for the purpose of observing religious holy days.

School district cannot require documentation from Clergy member and must accept note from the student's parent/guardian

HB 1225

Metcalf

Relating to the administration of certain required assessment instruments in paper format.

Parent/Guardian may request that standardized tests (including EoCs) are given in paper format

HB 1416

Bell

Relating to accelerated instruction provided to public school students who fail to achieve satisfactory performance on certain assessment instruments.

As filed, the bill makes several adjustments to the requirements that were established in HB 4545, including: - authorizes parental opt outs of accelerated learning requirements; - limits supplemental accelerated instruction requirements to reading and math; - requires 15 hours minimum accelerated instruction with a 30 hour average; - relaxes the student/teacher ratio to 4:1; - eliminates accelerated learning committees and instead requires written plans for students who remain below grade level for 2 or more years; - requires tutoring only when a district receives compensatory education funding and eliminates requirements if there is no funding source.

Recommend BCEC Support; Senate Companion to Paxton SB 1261

HB 1789

Buckley

Relating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to a person appointed or employed by a school district as a bus driver.

As filed, the bill provides an exception to the nepotism law for the hiring of a bus driver, if the board of trustees approves.

HB 1883

Bhojani

Relating to the administration of assessment instruments on religious holy days.

Adds All Saints Day, Christmas, Diwali, Eid al-Adha, Eidal-Fitr, Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Vaisakhi, Vesak, and Yom Kippur to the days an assessment cannot be given.

HB 1955

Buckley

Relating to establishing residency for purposes of admission into public schools.

Moves notice of attending the district from 10 days to 90 days

Senate Companion - SB 1008 from Senator Flores