By: Barrientos S.B. No. 186
73R2382 CAE-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a report submitted to the legislature by the Central
1-3 Education Agency about the statewide dropout rate.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.205(d), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (d) Not later than December 1 <January 31> of each
1-8 <odd-numbered> year the agency shall submit a report to the
1-9 governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of
1-10 representatives that includes:
1-11 (1) the current dropout rate of students in grade
1-12 levels seven through 12 in the aggregate and by grade level;
1-13 (2) projected cross-sectional and longitudinal dropout
1-14 rates for each of those grades for the next five years, assuming no
1-15 action is taken by the state to reduce the rate; and
1-16 (3) a systematic plan for reducing the projected
1-17 cross-sectional and longitudinal rates to not more than five
1-18 percent.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.