By Shapleigh S.B. No. 1372 76R5905 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the ability of certain public school students to attend 1-3 school at campuses other than those to which the students are 1-4 regularly assigned. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 25, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 25.0341 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 25.0341. ASSIGNMENTS AND TRANSFERS FOR CERTAIN 1-9 STUDENTS. (a) A student's parent or other person standing in 1-10 parental relation to the student may request assignment or transfer 1-11 of the student to a campus in the school district in which the 1-12 student is entitled to attend school under Section 25.001 other 1-13 than the campus to which the student is regularly assigned if the 1-14 student: 1-15 (1) during the preceding school year, failed to 1-16 perform satisfactorily on an assessment instrument in reading or 1-17 mathematics under Section 39.023(a), (b), or (c); and 1-18 (2) is assigned to attend a campus that was, at any 1-19 time in the preceding three years, identified as low-performing by 1-20 the commissioner under Subchapter D, Chapter 39, on a basis other 1-21 than the dropout rate. 1-22 (b) A parent of a student described by Subsection (a) or a 1-23 person standing in parental relation to the student may submit a 1-24 list to the school district of not more than five other campuses in 2-1 the district, in order of preference, that the parent or other 2-2 person would prefer the student to attend. A school district shall 2-3 assign or transfer the student to the highest-ranked campus on the 2-4 list at which space is available. 2-5 (c) If a district is unable to provide a modified assignment 2-6 or transfer under this section to a student because of the limited 2-7 number of facilities in the district or because of a lack of 2-8 available space at any other appropriate campus, the district shall 2-9 provide remedial services to the student. The district shall also 2-10 provide the student with transportation to the remedial services if 2-11 the student is entitled to receive transportation to the campus at 2-12 which the student regularly attends school. 2-13 (d) A school district shall maintain a waiting list of 2-14 students who have been denied modified assignments or transfers 2-15 under this section because of a lack of available space. The 2-16 district shall grant the modified assignments or transfers during 2-17 the school year as space becomes available. 2-18 (e) A school district shall give priority to students 2-19 seeking modified assignments or transfers under this section over 2-20 students seeking modified assignments or transfers under Section 2-21 25.033. 2-22 (f) A school district shall maintain records relating to 2-23 each modified assignment or transfer requested under this section, 2-24 and report the disposition of each request through the Public 2-25 Education Information Management System (PEIMS) under Section 2-26 42.006. 2-27 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 3-1 school year. 3-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 3-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 3-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-8 passage, and it is so enacted.