By Barrientos                                          S.B. No. 193
       74R2106 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to reporting public school dropout rates.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 11.205(b), Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The agency shall develop and implement a system for
    1-7  collecting <school districts to collect> data on student dropouts.
    1-8  The system must attempt to collect data regarding each student
    1-9  dropout, including the age, sex, ethnic origin, socioeconomic
   1-10  status, and highest completed grade level of the student dropout.
   1-11  For each campus, district, county, and region, the agency shall
   1-12  determine for each grade level from seven through 12 the number of
   1-13  student dropouts each school year and the ethnic origin of those
   1-14  students.  Each school district shall cooperate with the agency in
   1-15  determining whether a student is a dropout.  Not later than
   1-16  September 30 of each school year, the agency shall provide each
   1-17  school district with a list of students enrolled in the district
   1-18  during the preceding school year but not reported as attending a
   1-19  public school in this state during the current school year.  Not
   1-20  later than November 30 of each school year, each district shall
   1-21  determine and report to the agency the status of each student on
   1-22  the district's list, including whether the student:
   1-23              (1)  is enrolled in another school district or in a
   1-24  private school in this state;
    2-1              (2)  has moved out of state;
    2-2              (3)  is a dropout who is employed; or
    2-3              (4)  is a dropout who is unemployed.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996
    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.