By Maxey H.B. No. 584 75R3927 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to accreditation ratings assigned to school districts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 39.073, Education Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) The agency may not lower a district's exemplary 1-7 accreditation rating solely on the basis of the district's failure 1-8 to meet state standards for a single academic excellence indicator 1-9 or other single criterion considered in determining the rating. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-11 school year. 1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.