Amendment H-8198 to HF 2547
Relating to education, including by requiring school engagement meetings and attendance cooperation proceedings when children are absent from school, requiring school districts to restrict student use of cellular phones and smartphones, modifying provisions related to open enrollment of truant students, and modifying penalties
Failed · March 12, 2024Vote: 32 yeas, 63 nays
Filed March 12, 2024 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment requires that any notices sent regarding school absences be written in the native language of the parent, guardian, or child.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 4, line 3, after “absences.” by inserting “The notice shall be written in the native language of the parent, guardian, or legal or actual custodian of the child, if the child is not an emancipated minor, or in the child’s native language, if the child is an emancipated minor.”