By Clark, Naishtat, Chavez                             H.B. No. 457
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the computation of dropout rates for purposes of public
 1-3     school accountability.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Section 39.073, Education Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
 1-7           (f)  In the computation of dropout rates under Section
 1-8     39.051(b)(2), a student who is released from a juvenile
 1-9     pre-adjudication secure detention facility or juvenile
1-10     post-adjudication secure correctional facility and fails to enroll
1-11     in school or a student who leaves a residential treatment center
1-12     after receiving treatment for fewer than 85 days and fails to
1-13     enroll in school may not be considered to have dropped out from the
1-14     campus or school district serving the facility or center unless
1-15     that campus or district is the one to which the student is
1-16     regularly assigned.
1-17           SECTION 2. This Act applies to the computation of dropout
1-18     rates beginning with the computation made for the 2001-2002 school
1-19     year.
1-20           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-21     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-22     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-23     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-24     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.