By Maxey                                         H.B. No. 584

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                                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.