By Horn H.B. No. 2588 75R8710 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to accountability of certain public school alternative 1-3 education programs. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 39.072, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the 1-8 agency shall evaluate and report the performance of each off-campus 1-9 discipline management alternative education program under Section 1-10 37.008 and each dropout recovery alternative education program 1-11 under Section 29.081 on the basis of the program's performance 1-12 under an accountability system developed for that purpose by the 1-13 commissioner that, as necessary to encourage improvements in 1-14 student performance and to accurately measure the effectiveness of 1-15 the alternative education program, may measure program performance 1-16 in a manner other than the manner required under this chapter for a 1-17 campus providing a regular education program. 1-18 SECTION 2. The commissioner shall develop an alternative 1-19 accountability system in accordance with Section 39.072(d), 1-20 Education Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1, 1-21 1998. That alternative accountability system shall be used to 1-22 evaluate and report the performance of each off-campus discipline 1-23 management alternative education program under Section 37.008, 1-24 Education Code, and each dropout recovery alternative education 2-1 program under Section 29.081, Education Code, beginning with the 2-2 1997-1998 school year. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.