By Delisi H.B. No. 727
76R4269 BDH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the provision of rewards to schools for student
1-3 performance.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 39, Education Code, is amended by adding
1-6 Subchapter I to read as follows:
1-7 SUBCHAPTER I. CAMPUS PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE AWARDS
1-8 Sec. 39.201. CREATION OF SYSTEM. The Campus Performance
1-9 Incentive Awards Program is created to recognize and reward those
1-10 schools that demonstrate progress in achieving the education goals
1-11 of the state.
1-12 Sec. 39.202. TYPES OF AWARDS. (a) The commissioner may
1-13 present a financial award to the schools that the commissioner
1-14 determines have demonstrated the greatest improvement in achieving
1-15 the education goals. For each full-time professional staff member
1-16 and paraprofessional staff member, each of those schools is
1-17 entitled to $1,500, subject to available funds. If funds are
1-18 insufficient, money shall be awarded to staff members equally on a
1-19 pro rata basis.
1-20 (b) The commissioner may present proclamations or
1-21 certificates to additional schools determined to have met or
1-22 exceeded the education goals.
1-23 Sec. 39.203. AWARDS. (a) The criteria that the
1-24 commissioner shall use to select improved schools must be related
2-1 to the goals in Section 4.002 and must include a comprehensive
2-2 consideration of performance on the academic excellence indicators
2-3 adopted under Section 39.051. For purposes of selecting schools
2-4 under Section 39.202(a), each school's performance shall be:
2-5 (1) evaluated using longitudinal tracking measures of
2-6 student performance; and
2-7 (2) compared to state standards and to its previous
2-8 performance.
2-9 (b) The commissioner shall select annually schools qualified
2-10 to receive campus performance incentive awards for their
2-11 performance and report the selections to the governor and the State
2-12 Board of Education.
2-13 (c) The agency shall notify each school district of the
2-14 manner in which a school in the district may qualify for a campus
2-15 performance incentive award.
2-16 Sec. 39.204. USE OF AWARDS. A school receiving a financial
2-17 award under this subchapter must use the award to provide a salary
2-18 supplement to each full-time professional staff member and
2-19 paraprofessional staff member who was employed for at least 90 days
2-20 during the school year for which the award is received. The school
2-21 must divide the award evenly among all eligible full-time
2-22 professional staff members and paraprofessional staff members.
2-23 Sec. 39.205. FUNDING. The award system is funded by amounts
2-24 appropriated from the state lottery account or from other available
2-25 sources, including gifts, grants, and donations accepted for that
2-26 purpose. The commissioner may solicit and receive grants and
2-27 donations for the purpose of making awards under this subchapter.
3-1 A small portion of the award funds may be used by the commissioner
3-2 to pay for the costs associated with presenting awards to schools
3-3 under this subchapter. The donations, grants, or legislative
3-4 appropriations shall be accounted for and distributed by the
3-5 agency. The awards are subject to audit requirements established
3-6 by the State Board of Education.
3-7 Sec. 39.206. CONFIDENTIALITY. All information and reports
3-8 received by the commissioner under this subchapter from schools or
3-9 school districts deemed confidential under Chapter 552, Government
3-10 Code, are confidential and may not be disclosed in any public or
3-11 private proceeding.
3-12 SECTION 2. Section 466.355(b), Government Code, is amended
3-13 to read as follows:
3-14 (b) Money in the state lottery account may be used only for
3-15 the following purposes and shall be distributed as follows:
3-16 (1) the payment of prizes to the holders of winning
3-17 tickets;
3-18 (2) the payment of costs incurred in the operation and
3-19 administration of the lottery, including any fees received by a
3-20 lottery operator, provided that the costs incurred in a fiscal
3-21 biennium may not exceed an amount equal to 12 percent of the gross
3-22 revenue accruing from the sale of tickets in that biennium;
3-23 (3) the establishment of a pooled bond fund, lottery
3-24 prize reserve fund, unclaimed prize fund, and prize payment
3-25 account; [and]
3-26 (4) the transfer to the Texas Education Agency of any
3-27 amount appropriated for the current state fiscal year for the
4-1 Campus Performance Incentive Awards Program under Subchapter I,
4-2 Chapter 39, Education Code; and
4-3 (5) the balance, after creation of a reserve
4-4 sufficient to pay the amounts needed or estimated to be needed
4-5 under Subdivisions (1) through (4) [(3)], to be transferred to the
4-6 foundation school fund, on or before the 15th day of each month.
4-7 SECTION 3. Sections 21.357 and 39.111, Education Code, are
4-8 repealed.
4-9 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
4-10 applies beginning with the 2000-2001 school year.
4-11 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
4-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.