1-1 By: Johnson (Senate Sponsor - Sibley) H.B. No. 2333
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1993;
1-3 May 11, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 20, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
1-6 May 20, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Ratliff x
1-10 Haley x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Harris of Tarrant x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Montford x
1-16 Shapiro x
1-17 Sibley x
1-18 Turner x
1-19 Zaffirini x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2333 By: Sibley
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to evaluating the performance of public schools and the
1-24 rules and policies of the University Interscholastic League.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Sections 11.272(a), (d), and (e), Education Code,
1-27 are amended to read as follows:
1-28 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, a
1-29 school <campus or> district that is rated exemplary under Section
1-30 21.753 of this code is exempt from requirements and prohibitions
1-31 imposed under this code, including rules adopted under this code.
1-32 A school campus that satisfies criteria for exemplary status
1-33 established under Section 21.7531 of this code also is exempt from
1-34 those requirements and prohibitions.
1-35 (d) The State Board of Education in considering exemptions
1-36 or waivers shall provide as much regulatory relief as is practical
1-37 and reasonable to campuses or districts that are considered high
1-38 performing<, beginning in the 1990-1991 school year>.
1-39 (e) The commissioner may exempt a <an exemplary> school
1-40 campus in an exemplary district from elementary class size limits
1-41 under this section if the school campus submits to the commissioner
1-42 a written plan showing steps that will be taken to ensure that the
1-43 exemption from the class size limits will not be harmful to the
1-44 academic achievement of the students on the school campus. The
1-45 commissioner shall review achievement levels annually. The
1-46 exemption remains in effect until the commissioner determines that
1-47 achievement levels of the campus have declined.
1-48 SECTION 2. Sections 21.753(c) and (d), Education Code, are
1-49 amended to read as follows:
1-50 (c) The Central Education Agency shall rate each campus in a
1-51 district on the basis of the campus's performance on the indicators
1-52 adopted under Section 21.7531 of this code <using the rating
1-53 categories provided for districts under Subsection (a) of this
1-54 section>.
1-55 (d) The accreditation rating of a school district <or
1-56 campus> under this section may not be lowered solely on the basis
1-57 of size.
1-58 SECTION 3. Section 21.9211, Education Code, is amended by
1-59 amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read
1-60 as follows:
1-61 (e) The advisory council shall review the rules and policies
1-62 of the University Interscholastic League and shall make
1-63 recommendations relating to the rules and policies to the governor,
1-64 legislature, Legislative Council of the University Interscholastic
1-65 League, and <to the> State Board of Education. The advisory
1-66 council shall submit its initial report not later than January 1,
1-67 1995 <September 1, 1990>.
1-68 (g) In reviewing the rules and policies of the University
2-1 Interscholastic League under Subsection (e) of this section, the
2-2 advisory council shall study:
2-3 (1) league policy relating to the eligibility of
2-4 students to participate in programs;
2-5 (2) geographic distribution of league resources and
2-6 programs; and
2-7 (3) the extent to which the league attempts to ensure
2-8 and achieves gender equity in distribution of resources and
2-9 programs.
2-10 (h) The University Interscholastic League may not take any
2-11 action relating to providing an additional program, including
2-12 implementing a decision to reclassify a school district, before the
2-13 advisory council has submitted a final report under Subsection (e)
2-14 of this section.
2-15 SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
2-16 school year.
2-17 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-24 * * * * *
2-25 Austin,
2-26 Texas
2-27 May 20, 1993
2-28 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-29 President of the Senate
2-30 Sir:
2-31 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred H.B. No.
2-32 2333, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-33 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-34 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-35 pass and be printed.
2-36 Ratliff,
2-37 Chairman
2-38 * * * * *
2-39 WITNESSES
2-40 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2333.