SRC-MKV H.B. 457 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 457
By: Clark (Duncan)
Education
5/5/2001
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, a juvenile held in a juvenile pre-adjudication secure detention
facility or a juvenile postadjudication secure correctional facility
(facility) is considered for enrollment purposes a resident of the school
district in which the facility is located. A school district is required to
serve a facility which is located within that district. Student data from
the facility must be used for the purpose of determining an accountability
rating. A juvenile held at a facility often lives in a school district that
does not serve the facility. If a juvenile is released from the facility
and does not enroll in school, the school district which serves the
facility is charged with a dropout for the purpose of determining an
accountability rating. This might unfairly prevent a school from achieving
a recognized or exemplary rating because they are held accountable for
students who do not live in the district.  H.B. 457 specifies that a
student who is released from a facility and who fails to enroll in school
will not be considered a dropout of the school district serving the
facility, unless the district is the one to which the student is regularly
assigned.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 39.073, Education Code, by adding Subsection (f)
to prohibit 
a student who is released from a juvenile pre-adjudication secure detention
facility or juvenile post-adjudication secure correctional facility and
fails to enroll in school or a student who leaves a residential treatment
center after receiving treatment for fewer than 85 days and fails to enroll
in school from being considered to have dropped out from the campus or
school district serving the facility or center unless that campus or
district is the one to which the student is regularly assigned in the
computation of dropout rates under Section 39.051(b)(2). 
 
SECTION 2. Provides that this Act applies to the computation of dropout
rates beginning with the computation made for the 2001-2002 school year. 
 
SECTION 3.  Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2001.