By Bivins S.B. No. 936
75R5856 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to public education.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 7.022(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (b) The state auditor shall review the quality and
1-7 effectiveness of the agency's process for auditing internal
1-8 operations and shall report the state auditor's findings to the
1-9 commissioner, [and] the board, the governor, and the Legislative
1-10 Budget Board.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 11.159(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (a) The State Board of Education shall provide a training
1-14 course for independent school district trustees to be offered by
1-15 the regional education service centers or other providers approved
1-16 by and registered with the commissioner. Registration for a course
1-17 must be open to any interested person, including current and
1-18 prospective board members, and the state board may prescribe a
1-19 registration fee designed to offset the costs of providing that
1-20 course.
1-21 SECTION 3. Section 11.253(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-22 read as follows:
1-23 (b) Each district's policy and procedures shall establish
1-24 campus-level planning and decision-making committees as provided
2-1 for through the procedures provided by Sections 11.251(b)-(e),
2-2 except that a campus-level committee is not required to include
2-3 district-level professional staff members.
2-4 SECTION 4. Sections 28.023(b) and (c), Education Code, are
2-5 amended to read as follows:
2-6 (b) A school district shall give a student in a primary
2-7 grade level credit for a grade level and advance the student one
2-8 grade level on the basis of a board-approved examination for
2-9 acceleration if:
2-10 (1) the student scores the equivalent of 90 [in the
2-11 90th percentile] or above on a scale of 100 on each section of the
2-12 examination;
2-13 (2) a district representative recommends that the
2-14 student be advanced; and
2-15 (3) the student's parent or guardian gives written
2-16 approval of the advancement.
2-17 (c) A school district shall give a student in grade level
2-18 six or above credit for a subject on the basis of a board-approved
2-19 examination for credit in the subject if the student scores the
2-20 equivalent of 90 [in the 90th percentile] or above on a scale of
2-21 100 on the examination. If a student is given credit in a subject
2-22 on the basis of an examination, the district shall enter the
2-23 examination score on the student's transcript.
2-24 SECTION 5. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
2-25 section, this Act takes effect immediately.
2-26 (b) Section 4 of this Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-27 SECTION 6. (a) Section 11.253(b), Education Code, as
3-1 amended by this Act, applies beginning with the 1997-1998 school
3-2 year.
3-3 (b) Sections 28.023(b) and (c), Education Code, as amended
3-4 by this Act, apply only to an examination taken on or after
3-5 September 1, 1997.
3-6 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the
3-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
3-12 terms, and it is so enacted.