SRC-MAX C.S.S.B. 936 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterC.S.S.B. 936
By: Bivins
Education
4-3-97
Committee Report (Substituted)


DIGEST 

Currently, certain sections of the Education Code are in need of revision.
This bill is a clean-up bill which addresses individual education issues.  

PURPOSE

As proposed, C.S.S.B. 936 amends certain sections of the Education Code
relating to public education. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 7.022(b), Education Code, to require the state
auditor to review the quality and effectiveness of the Texas Education
Agency's process for auditing internal operations and to report the state
auditor's findings to the governor and the Legislative Budget Board, among
other governmental entities. 

SECTION 2. Amends Section 11.159(a), Education Code, to require the State
Board of  Education (board) to provide a training course for independent
school district trustees to be offered by the regional education service
centers or other providers approved by and registered with the
commissioner of education. 

SECTION 3. Amends Section 11.253(b), Education Code, to require each
school district's policy and procedures to establish campus-level planning
and decision-making committees as provided for through the procedures
provided by Sections 11.251(b)-(e), except that a campus-level committee
is not required to include district-level professional staff members.   

SECTION 4. Amends Section 12.101(a), Education Code, to authorize the
board to grant a charter on the application of an eligible entity for an
open-enrollment charter school to operate in a facility of a commercial or
nonprofit entity or a governmental entity, rather than school district.   

SECTION 5. Amends Sections 28.023(b) and (c), Education Code, to require a
school district to give a student in a primary grade level credit for a
grade level and advance the student one grade level on the basis of a
board-approved examination for acceleration if the student scores the
equivalent of 90, rather than in the 90th percentile, or above on a scale
of 100 on each section of the examination.  Makes conforming changes. 

SECTION 6. (a)  Effective date:  upon passage.

(b)  Effective date for SECTION 5 of this Act:  September 1, 1997.

SECTION 7. (a)  Provides that Section 11.253(b) of this Act applies
beginning with the 1997-1998 school year. 

(b)  Makes application of Sections 28.023(b) and (c) prospective.
 
SECTION 8. Emergency clause.  

SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE CHANGES

Adds new SECTION 4, redesignates proposed SECTION 4 as new SECTION 5, and
renumbers subsequent sections accordingly. 

SECTION 4.

Authorizes the board to grant a charter on the application of an eligible
entity for an openenrollment charter school to operate in a facility of a
commercial or nonprofit entity or a governmental entity, rather than a
school district.