75R13882 CAS-D                           

         By Ehrhardt                                            H.B. No. 816

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 816:

         By Hernandez                                       C.S.H.B. No. 816

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to an application for a waiver submitted to the

 1-3     commissioner of education by a school campus or district.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 7.056(b), Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  A school campus or district seeking a waiver must submit

 1-8     a written application to the commissioner not later than the 31st

 1-9     day before the campus or district intends to take action requiring

1-10     a waiver.  The application must include:

1-11                 (1)  a written plan approved by the board of trustees

1-12     of the district that states the achievement objectives of the

1-13     campus or district and the inhibition imposed on those objectives

1-14     by the requirement, restriction, or prohibition; and

1-15                 (2)  written comments and the signature of the

1-16     chairperson of [from] the appropriate campus- or district-level

1-17     committee established under Section 11.251 evidencing review of the

1-18     application by a majority of the members of the committee as

1-19     follows:

1-20                       (A)  in the case of an application by a district,

1-21     the chairperson of the district-level committee and of each

1-22     campus-level committee whose campus is affected by the waiver must

1-23     comment on and sign the application; and

1-24                       (B)  in the case of an application by a campus,

 2-1     the chairperson of the campus-level committee for that campus must

 2-2     comment on and sign the application.

 2-3           SECTION 2.  Section 7.056(b), Education Code, as amended by

 2-4     this Act, applies only to an application for a waiver submitted to

 2-5     the commissioner of education by a school campus or district on or

 2-6     after the effective date of this Act.

 2-7           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-8           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.