schools report student deaths on each campus to the state

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89R3468 RDR-D

By: Alvarado
S.B. No. 787

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a requirement to report through the Public Education

Information Management System the number of student deaths

occurring on a school district or open-enrollment charter school

campus.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 48.009(b), Education Code, is amended to

read as follows:

(b) The commissioner by rule shall require each school

district and open-enrollment charter school to report through the

Public Education Information Management System information

regarding:

(1) the number of students enrolled in the district or

school who are identified as having dyslexia;

(2) the availability of school counselors, including

the number of full-time equivalent school counselors, at each

campus;

(3) the availability of expanded learning

opportunities as described by Section 33.252 at each campus;

(4) the total number of students, other than students

described by Subdivision (5), enrolled in the district or school

with whom the district or school, as applicable, used intervention

strategies, as that term is defined by Section 26.004, at any time

during the year for which the report is made;

(5) the total number of students enrolled in the

district or school to whom the district or school provided aids,

accommodations, or services under Section 504, Rehabilitation Act

of 1973 (29 U.S.C. Section 794), at any time during the year for

which the report is made;

(6) disaggregated by campus and grade, the number of:

(A) children who are required to attend school

under Section 25.085, are not exempted under Section 25.086, and

fail to attend school without excuse for 10 or more days or parts of

days within a six-month period in the same school year;

(B) students for whom the district initiates a

truancy prevention measure under Section 25.0915(a-4); and

(C) parents of students against whom an

attendance officer or other appropriate school official has filed a

complaint under Section 25.093; [ and ]

(7) the number of students who are enrolled in a high

school equivalency program, a dropout recovery school, or an adult

education program provided under a high school diploma and industry

certification charter school program provided by the district or

school and who:

(A) are at least 18 years of age and under 26

years of age;

(B) have not previously been reported to the

agency as dropouts; and

(C) enroll in the program at the district or

school after not attending school for a period of at least nine

months ; and

(8) the number of student deaths that occurred on each

district or school campus during the year for which the report is

made .

SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026

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, 2025.