** REVISION **
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE: Public Education
TIME & DATE: 2:00PM, Thursday, April 22, 1999
PLACE: E2.036
CHAIR: Rep. Paul Sadler
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To committee will consider the following:
HB 51 Cuellar / et al.
Relating to the authority of a taxing unit to permit certain persons to
perform services for the unit in lieu of paying ad valorem taxes owed to
the unit.
HB 99 Howard
Relating to a franchise tax credit for certain contributions to a
public school or a nonprofit scholarship funding organization.
HB 114 Smith
Relating to the filing of a declaration of write-in candidacy in
elections for trustees of independent school districts.
HB 171 Garcia
Relating to a school district's liability to the parent of a
student who fails to perform satisfactorily on certain assessment
instruments.
HB 182 Longoria
Relating to counseling for parents of certain public school
students who are at risk of dropping out of school; providing
penalties.
HB 216 Hochberg
Relating to videotaping of a child by a school district employee.
HB 220 Nixon, Joe
Relating to participation in University Interscholastic League
sponsored activities.
HB 240 Krusee
Relating to the number of charters for open-enrollment charter
schools the State Board of Education may grant.
HB 259 Maxey
Relating to the manner in which salaries are paid to certain
educational aides employed by school districts.
HB 285 Wise
Relating to a requirement that school buses be equipped with mobile
telephones.
HB 291 Wise
Relating to instruction concerning child safety issues for public
school students.
HB 296 Wise
Relating to grounds for special accreditation investigations of
school districts.
HB 334 Seaman
Relating to the curriculum requirements and transcript forms for a
career and technology high school program.
HB 335 Seaman
Relating to the prekindergarten program operated by the Texas A&M
University--Corpus Christi Early Childhood Center.
HB 360 Wise
Relating to a school district program to notify parents of a
student's absence.
HB 370 Luna, Vilma
Relating to the determination of academic achievement or
proficiency as the basis for being promoted in public school.
HB 387 Garcia
Relating to information from public school campus report cards
disseminated to the parents or other persons having lawful control
of students.
HB 441 Walker
Relating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to certain
school districts.
HB 448 Pitts / et al.
Relating to notification of certain persons by a school district
when a student makes certain threats.
HB 449 Pitts
Relating to a requirement that a public school principal provide
notice to a juvenile probation department before suspending or
expelling a student.
HB 481 Woolley
Relating to bilingual education programs in public schools.
HB 506 Tillery
Relating to a parent's access to any school district videotape in
which the parent's child appears.
HB 538 Zbranek
Relating to certain academic excellence indicators used in
evaluating public schools.
HB 578 Giddings
Relating to instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation for public
school students and to certification in cardiopulmonary
resuscitation and first aid of certain school district personnel.
HB 612 George
Relating to the computation of school district property values for
purposes of school finance.
HB 613 George
Relating to the equalized wealth level under the foundation school
program.
HB 646 Howard
Relating to selection of textbooks by school districts.
HB 685 Oliveira
Relating to providing intensive English language development
training to certain public school students.
HB 686 Oliveira
Relating to instruction in the Spanish language in public schools.
HB 698 Wilson
Relating to assessment instruments administered to public school
students.
HB 708 Tillery
Relating to the rights and responsibilities of parents of public
school students.
HB 709 Krusee
Relating to creation of a public education scholarship program for
certain children.
HB 711 Krusee
Relating to charters for open-enrollment charter schools in certain
school districts.
HB 712 Krusee
Relating to the authority of mayors of certain municipalities to
grant charters for open-enrollment schools.
HB 724 Delisi
Relating to student loan repayment assistance for classroom
teachers.
HB 726 Delisi
Relating to the provision of grants to public school districts to
support certain research by teachers.
HB 727 Delisi
Relating to the provision of rewards to schools for student
performance.
HB 760 Dutton
Relating to the establishment of basic skills academies in certain
school districts.
HB 798 George
Relating to the purchase of attendance credits under the foundation
school program.
HB 838 Garcia
Relating to tax abatement by school districts.
HB 839 Garcia
Relating to the public school ethics curriculum committee.
HB 840 Garcia
Relating to admission to a public school under the public education
grant program.
HB 877 Hochberg
Relating to the academic excellence indicator system used to
evaluate public schools.
HB 1044 Talton
Relating to the total amount of time a student may spend in a
bilingual education or special language program.
HB 1046 Sadler
Relating to the promotion of public school students based on
satisfactory performance on certain assessment instruments and to
programs to assist students in achieving satisfactory performance.
HB 1047 Sadler
Relating to school finance.
HB 1048 Sadler
Relating to college advanced placement courses offered by public
high schools.
HB 1113 Farabee
Relating to limits on the use of assessment instruments in public
schools.
HB 1144 Garcia
Relating to public school class sizes.
HB 1160 Staples
Relating to the fiscal year of a school district and to the
submission of a preliminary appraisal roll to a school district.
HB 1224 Jones, Jesse
Relating to the requirement that alcohol awareness information be
included in the curriculum of certain driver education and driving
safety courses.
HB 1228 Jones, Jesse
Relating to the student/teacher ratio in public school
prekindergarten classes.
HB 1230 Eiland
Relating to adjustments to the property tax values of certain
school districts for purposes of funding under the Foundation
School Program.
HB 1240 Ramsay
Relating to a requirement that the University Interscholastic
League hold public hearings on district assignments.
HB 1241 Grusendorf
Relating to state assessments of public school students.
HB 1251 Garcia
Relating to information concerning students who drop out of public
school.
HB 1523 Green
Relating to a parent's access to certain public school classrooms.
HB 1542 Keffer
Relating to purchasing requirements for school districts and junior
college districts.
HB 1569 Grusendorf
Relating to a franchise tax and property tax credit for certain
corporations for payment of certain educational scholarships.
HB 1617 Uher / et al.
Relating to the transfer and operation of the Communities In
Schools program.
HB 1631 Bailey
Relating to penalizing school districts for failing to fully
collect ad valorem taxes.
HB 1683 Williams / et al.
Relating to funding for school districts that open new schools or
expand existing schools.
HB 1685 Williams / et al.
Relating to state assistance for school facilities in certain
fast-growth school districts.
HB 1726 Krusee
Relating to the issuance of bonds to finance or refinance certain
facilities used by an open-enrollment charter school.
HB 1738 Wilson
Relating to human rights instruction in public school classes.
HB 1760 Hill
Relating to the investment of debt service funds by school districts,
junior college districts, and community college districts.
HB 1762 Hill
Relating to the issuance and sale of bonds and time warrants by school
districts and the issuance of obligations and execution of credit
agreements by certain school districts and junior college districts.
HB 1816 Wise
Relating to a safety education component of the public school
enrichment curriculum.
HB 1883 Naishtat
Relating to local-option bargaining by boards of trustees of public
school districts.
HB 1903 Wilson
Relating to creation of Silver Quill awards to recognize
individuals who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the
field of public education.
HB 1940 Siebert / et al.
Relating to the first instructional day of a school year for public
school students.
HB 1964 Howard
Relating to certain state-adopted assessment instruments used in
public schools.
HB 1965 Howard
Relating to the reading curriculum used in public schools and to
reading textbooks for public school students.
HB 1966 Howard
Relating to certification and training of teachers who teach at
elementary grade levels.
HB 2075 Hochberg
Relating to publication of school district budget and tax rate
notices.
HB 2076 Hochberg / et al.
Relating to the definition of hazardous routes for pupil transportation.
HB 2078 Hardcastle
Relating to school district policies on student absences to
participate in extracurricular activities.
HB 2097 Uresti
Relating to requiring an application for admission to a public
institution of higher education as a requirement for graduation
from high school.
HB 2118 Grusendorf / et al.
Relating to opportunity scholarships for children assigned to
attend a low-performing public school in certain school districts.
HB 2132 Garcia
Relating to information from public school campus report cards
disseminated to the parents or other persons having lawful control
of students.
HB 2133 Dutton
Relating to the provision of kindergarten and prekindergarten
programs by school districts on a full-day basis.
HB 2232 Alexander
Relating to the written notice that a school district is required
to provide to property owners before adopting the annual ad valorem
tax rate for the district.
HB 2270 Ritter
Relating to compensation time for staff development.
HB 2307 Keffer
Relating to assistance to certain low-performing public school
districts.
HB 2318 Ritter
Relating to staff development in public schools.
HB 2321 Cuellar
Relating to a state funding allotment for health insurance and
other health care benefits for public school employees.
HB 2343 Culberson
Relating to certification to teach at an elementary grade level in
public schools.
HB 2358 Olivo
Relating to open-enrollment charter schools.
HB 2360 Olivo
Relating to the right of parents to information concerning special
education.
HB 2363 McReynolds
Relating to staff development leave for certain public school
employees.
HB 2366 Wilson
Relating to creation of a public education voucher pilot program
for certain children.
HB 2367 Wilson
Relating to the suspension of a student from participation in
extracurricular activities.
HB 2369 Bailey
Relating to the termination of certain public school district
employees.
HB 2378 Burnam
Relating to a requirement that certain school districts establish
programs to reduce truancy.
HB 2431 Lewis, Ron
Relating to investigations of allegations concerning physical abuse
of or sexual misconduct toward a student by a district employee.
HB 2433 Swinford
Relating to campus report cards in public schools.
HB 2464 Delisi
Relating to an award system for parent-teacher conferences in
public schools.
HB 2525 Dutton
Relating to fees paid by school districts for professional
services.
HB 2531 Van de Putte / et al.
Relating to training for public school educators in recognizing and
reporting incidents of possible abuse or neglect of children.
HB 2552 Hochberg
Relating to academic standards and assessments for Texas school
children.
HB 2566 Salinas
Relating to the Texas Teachers' Excellence Program.
HB 2571 Junell
Relating to the amount retained in the lottery pooled bond fund.
HB 2607 Zbranek
Relating to educational services for certain children incarcerated
in private juvenile detention facilities.
HB 2674 Keel
Relating to the basic allotment under the Foundation School Program
for mid-sized school districts.
HB 2699 Sadler
Relating to the compensation and benefits of active and retired
public school classroom teachers and librarians.
HB 2700 Sadler
Relating to the promotion of public school students based on
satisfactory performance on certain assessment instruments, to
programs to assist children and school districts in achieving
satisfactory performance, and to the admission and attendance of
students.
HB 2704 Reyna, Arthur
Relating to school district special education advocacy programs.
HB 2712 Dutton
Relating to the eligibility of certain persons to take a high
school equivalency examination.
HB 2766 Moreno, Joe
Relating to the powers of municipalities that have created certain
reinvestment zones.
HB 2776 Dukes
Relating to induction-year programs for teachers in public schools.
HB 2783 Gray
Relating to the funding of the Seaborne Conservation Corps or a
similar program at Texas A&M University at Galveston.
HB 2797 Delisi
Relating to abstinence education in public schools.
HB 2807 Garcia
Relating to the boards of trustees of certain public school
districts.
HB 2908 Olivo
Relating to certification of a public school educator by the
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
HB 2919 Dunnam
Relating to the terms of certain time warrants issued by school
districts.
HB 2976 Hamric
Relating to cooperation between public and private entities and
public schools and to franchise tax refunds for providing certain
assistance in education.
HB 2982 Culberson
Relating to procedures for determining if legislation relating to
public education subjects the state or a local entity to federal
control.
HB 2983 Culberson
Relating to assessment instruments used to measure performance in
primary and secondary schools.
HB 2988 Culberson
Relating to the disqualification of a school's extracurricular team
based on an ineligible team member's participation in an
extracurricular activity.
HB 2991 Davis, John / et al.
Relating to cooperative programs between school districts or
institutions of higher education and the Texas Space Grant
Consortium.
HB 3012 Hochberg
Relating to sanctions imposed on low-performing public school
campuses.
HB 3013 Hochberg
Relating to curriculum requirements for certain public school
students.
HB 3025 Dutton
Relating to programs for public school students with autism or
pervasive development disorder.
HB 3026 Dutton
Relating to school district contracts and bonds.
HB 3043 Palmer / et al.
Relating to establishing a scholarship program and prekindergarten
program to be funded from revenues of the state lottery.
HB 3146 Smith
Relating to the placement of students with disabilities.
HB 3136 Brown, Fred / et al.
Relating to a school district's authority to require additional
assessment as a condition of transferring course credit under
certain circumstances.
HB 3148 Smith
Relating to information included in the campus report card.
HB 3192 Moreno, Joe
Relating to the provision of private community-based dropout
recovery education programs to provide alternative education
programs for students at risk of dropping out of school.
HB 3237 Denny
Relating to school finance.
HB 3353 Ritter
Relating to assault leave for public school employees.
HB 3379 George
Relating to a bill of rights for public school teachers.
HB 3395 Culberson
Relating to state policy in public education and the effect of
federal law on that state policy.
HB 3439 Isett
Relating to health clinics on public school campuses.
HB 3459 Kuempel
Relating to minimum area, attendance and election requirements for
creation of a new school district.
HB 3519 Madden
Relating to parental notification and consent before children are
put into experimental programs.
HB 3558 Hochberg / et al.
Relating to the method by which allotments are reduced to fund
certain programs within the foundation school programs.
HB 3559 Luna, Vilma
Relating to leave for school district employees who have been
physically injured under certain circumstances.
HB 3586 Flores
Relating to the nepotism prohibitions applicable to public school
districts.
HB 3629 Naishtat / et al.
Relating to minimum salaries for interpreters employed in public
schools to provide interpreting services to students who are deaf
or hard of hearing.
HB 3644 Krusee
Relating to university charter schools.
HB 3645 Krusee
Relating to a franchise tax credit for certain contributions to
certain nonprofit scholarship funding organizations.
HB 3646 Krusee
Relating to charters for open-enrollment charter schools to serve
certain student populations.
HB 3653 Oliveira
Relating to compensatory and accelerated education in public
schools.
HB 3672 Goolsby
Relating to organization of certain school districts.
HB 3701 Shields
Relating to a school property tax credit for certain
education-related expenses.
HB 3754 Krusee
Relating to creation of the Charter School Commission.
HB 3761 Gallego
Relating to assistance to certain students in obtaining admission
to another public school district using a public education grant.
HB 3767 Gallego
Relating to written notice to certain parents of a public school
student's unsatisfactory performance.
HB 3768 Gallego
Relating to report cards on the performance of public school
campuses.
HB 3769 Gallego
Relating to individualized performance agreements concerning
students who fail to perform satisfactorily in academic classes or
on standardized assessment instruments.
HB 3770 Gallego
Relating to the ability of certain public school students to attend
school at campuses other than those to which the students are
regularly assigned.
HJR 10 Culberson / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the support and
maintenance and an efficient system of public schools.
HJR 13 Reyna, Arthur
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing elections for the
recall of independent school district trustees.
HJR 45 Hochberg
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the distribution
of the Permanent School Fund.
HJR 59 Dutton
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize school districts
to purchase personal injury protection insurance to cover students
who are injured while riding as passengers in a vehicle operated by
or for the school district.
SB 40 Lucio
Relating to a study by the commissioner of education concerning the
first instructional day of the school year.
SB 42 Shapiro / et al.
Relating to authorizing school districts to offer drug testing
programs.
SB 103 Bivins
Relating to state assessments of public school students.
SB 104 Duncan
Relating to keeping school campuses open after school hours for
academic and recreational purposes.
SB 111 Carona
Relating to an optional majority vote requirement for election of
trustees in certain independent school districts.
SB 225 Bivins
Relating to reporting the academic performance of public high
school graduates in institutions of higher education.
SB 237 Ellis, Rodney
Relating to providing public school students and their parents with
information about higher education and financial aid opportunities.
SB 293 Harris
Relating to the statutory terminology used to describe certain
disadvantaged public school students.
SB 330 Barrientos / et al.
Relating to the transfer and operation of the Communities In
Schools program.
SB 476 Luna, Gregory
Relating to inclusion of special education students in certain
public education decisions.
SB 636 Bivins
Relating to concurrent enrollment agreements between junior
colleges and private high schools.
SB 669 Ratliff
Relating to certain contracting procedures for school districts and
institutions of higher education.
SB 870 Cain
Relating to the right of parents to information concerning special
education.
SB 955 Bivins
Relating to grants in support of pre-reading instruction.
SB 1026 Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to cooperative programs between certain educational
institutions under which students may work at the Lyndon B. Johnson
Space Center.
SB 1320 Ratliff
Relating to the amount retained in the lottery pooled bond fund.
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