By: Davila H.B. No. 2486
73R4960 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to parent involvement and education pilot programs.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 21.929(c), (e), and (f), Education Code,
1-5 are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) Programs for parents of children enrolled in school must
1-7 include methods to encourage parents to visit the school. The
1-8 program also shall provide for training parents to participate in
1-9 their children's school and education and to help <in helping>
1-10 their children develop:
1-11 (1) self-esteem;
1-12 (2) good study habits at home and at school; and
1-13 (3) communication with their parents, with school
1-14 personnel, and with other students.
1-15 (e) In selecting programs for approval and funding, the
1-16 agency shall give preference to programs that serve campuses with a
1-17 significant percentage of students at risk of dropping out of
1-18 school, as determined under Section 21.557(f) of this code. The
1-19 <significantly high dropout rates and that include students from
1-20 families of low income, as determined by rule of the> State Board
1-21 of Education by rule shall define "significant percentage" for
1-22 purposes of this subsection.
1-23 (f) The Central Education Agency shall provide guidelines
1-24 and other assistance for schools in developing and establishing
2-1 parent involvement education programs. The guidelines shall
2-2 provide for considering any specific cultural needs of parents in a
2-3 particular district.
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
2-5 school year.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.