Current law and rules of the Department of Education include accommodation provisions for instances when course content conflicts with sincerely held religious beliefs and practices of a student or a student's parent or guardian. This bill provides the procedures by which a student may be granted an excused absence from a course when course content conflicts with sincerely held religious beliefs and practices of the student or of the student's parent or guardian. The bill also provides the instructional alternatives available to such students and the procedures for receiving academic credit for these instructional alternatives. The bill also requires the Commissioner of Education to establish or amend rules to accomplish this purpose.