A school district board may adopt a parental-involvement policy for disciplinary placements, and if it does, the policy must require notice to parents, allow behavioral agreements, and permit a possible placement reduction.
Sec. 37.0014. POLICY FOR PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOL DISCIPLINARY PLACEMENTS. (a) The board of trustees of a school district may adopt a policy for parental involvement in school disciplinary placements. (b) A policy adopted under this section must provide for: (1) the principal, campus behavior coordinator, or other appropriate administrator to notify the parent of or person standing in parental relation to a student who has been placed in a disciplinary alternative education program or expelled of the parent's or person's right to request a behavioral agreement that specifies the responsibilities of the parent or person and student to be developed; and (2) if a behavioral agreement described by Subdivision (1) is developed and the student and the student's parent or person standing in parental relation comply with the terms of the agreement, subject to Subsection (c), a reduction in the period of the disciplinary placement imposed on the student. (c) A reduction in the period of a disciplinary placement under Subsection (b)(2) does not entitle the student for whom the period of placement was reduced to a different disciplinary placement. The reduction in the period of a disciplinary placement is at the sole discretion of the principal, campus behavior coordinator, or other appropriate administrator and may be revoked or amended at any time if the student or the student's parent or person standing in parental relation does not comply with the terms of the behavioral agreement developed under Subsection (b)(1). (d) A behavioral agreement developed under Subsection (b)(1) must include in writing the specific reduction in the period of the student's disciplinary placement with which the student will be credited if the student and the student's parent or person standing in parental relation comply with the terms of the behavioral agreement. (e) The commissioner shall adopt a model behavioral agreement for use by school districts in developing a behavioral agreement under Subsection (b)(1). Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1066 (H.B. 6), Sec. 7, eff. June 20, 2025.