By Wise H.B. No. 1593
75R6935 ESH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to grounds for special accreditation investigations of
1-3 school districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 39.075(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The commissioner shall authorize special accreditation
1-8 investigations to be conducted under the following circumstances:
1-9 (1) when excessive numbers of absences of students
1-10 eligible to be tested on state assessment instruments are
1-11 determined;
1-12 (2) when excessive numbers of allowable exemptions
1-13 from the required state assessment are determined;
1-14 (3) in response to complaints submitted to the agency
1-15 with respect to alleged violations of civil rights or other
1-16 requirements imposed on the state by federal law or court order;
1-17 (4) in response to established compliance reviews of
1-18 the district's financial accounting practices and state and federal
1-19 program requirements;
1-20 (5) when extraordinary numbers of student placements
1-21 in alternative education programs, other than placements under
1-22 Sections 37.006 and 37.007, are determined; [or]
1-23 (6) in response to an allegation involving a conflict
1-24 between members of the board of trustees or between the board and
2-1 the district administration if it appears that the conflict
2-2 involves a violation of a role or duty of the board members or the
2-3 administration clearly defined by this code; or
2-4 (7) in response to allegations that the district-level
2-5 and site-based decision-making process under Subchapter F, Chapter
2-6 11, is not properly functioning, if the person making the
2-7 allegation has exhausted the person's remedies through the
2-8 district's grievance process.
2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.