By: Luna S.B. No. 679
73R5801 CAS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an extended year program for certain public school
1-3 students.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter O, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 21.562 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 21.562. OPTIONAL EXTENDED YEAR PROGRAM. (a) A school
1-8 district may apply to the commissioner of education for approval to
1-9 provide an extended year program for a period not to exceed 30 days
1-10 for students in kindergarten through grade level eight who:
1-11 (1) are students of limited English proficiency as
1-12 defined by Section 21.452 of this code;
1-13 (2) are eligible for compensatory or remedial
1-14 instructional services under Section 21.557 of this code; or
1-15 (3) did not perform satisfactorily on each portion of
1-16 an assessment instrument administered under this subchapter.
1-17 (b) The commissioner may adopt rules for the administration
1-18 of programs provided under this section.
1-19 (c) A school district may not enroll more than 12 students
1-20 in a class provided under this section.
1-21 (d) Each class provided under this section shall be taught
1-22 by a teacher who has successfully completed a program that provides
1-23 training to teach a class under this section and that has been
1-24 approved for that purpose by the commissioner of education.
2-1 (e) A student who completes a class provided under this
2-2 section shall be promoted to the next grade level at the beginning
2-3 of the next school year.
2-4 (f) A school district may apply for approval under this
2-5 section only for a pilot program for students in grade level one
2-6 for the 1993-1994 school year and only for a pilot program for
2-7 students in grade levels one and two for the 1994-1995 school year.
2-8 This subsection expires September 1, 1995.
2-9 SECTION 2. Section 21.032(c), Education Code, is amended to
2-10 read as follows:
2-11 (c) Unless specifically exempted by Section 21.033 of this
2-12 code, a student enrolled in a public school district must attend an
2-13 extended year program provided by a school district under Section
2-14 21.562 of this code for which the student is eligible or tutorial
2-15 classes required by the district under Section 21.103(b) of this
2-16 code. A district shall provide transportation services to students
2-17 required to attend an extended year program provided by a school
2-18 district under Section 21.562 of this code. A school district is
2-19 not required to provide transportation services to accommodate
2-20 <such> students required to attend tutorial classes under Section
2-21 21.103(b) of this code.
2-22 SECTION 3. Section 16.006(a), Education Code, is amended to
2-23 read as follows:
2-24 (a) In this chapter, average daily attendance is the
2-25 quotient of the sum of <determined by the daily> attendance for
2-26 each day <as averaged each month> of the minimum school year as
2-27 described under Section 16.052(a) of this code and for each day
3-1 approved by the commissioner for an extended year program under
3-2 Section 21.562 of this code divided by the number of days in the
3-3 minimum school year.
3-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-10 passage, and it is so enacted.