1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 858
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 16, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 16, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to written notice to certain parents of a public school
 1-9     student's unsatisfactory performance.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 28.022,
1-12     Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  The board of trustees of each school district shall
1-14     adopt a policy that:
1-15                 (1)  provides for a conference between parents and
1-16     teachers;  [and]
1-17                 (2)  requires the district, at least once every 12
1-18     weeks, to give written notice to a parent of a student's
1-19     performance in each class or subject; and
1-20                 (3)  requires the district, at least once every three
1-21     weeks, to give written notice to a parent of a student's
1-22     performance in a subject included in the foundation curriculum
1-23     under Section 28.002(a)(1) if the student's performance in the
1-24     subject is consistently unsatisfactory, as determined by the
1-25     district.
1-26           (b)  The notice required under Subsections [Subsection]
1-27     (a)(2) and (a)(3) must:
1-28                 (1)  provide for the signature of a student's parent;
1-29     and
1-30                 (2)  be returned to the district.
1-31           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-32     school year.
1-33           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-34     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-35     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-36     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-37     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-38     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-39     passage, and it is so enacted.
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