1-1     By:  Clark, Naishtat, Chavez (Senate Sponsor-Duncan)   H.B. No. 457
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 25, 2001;
 1-3     April 26, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 8, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 8, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the computation of dropout rates for purposes of public
 1-9     school accountability.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1. Section 39.073, Education Code, is amended by
1-12     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-13           (f)  In the computation of dropout rates under Section
1-14     39.051(b)(2), a student who is released from a juvenile
1-15     pre-adjudication secure detention facility or juvenile
1-16     post-adjudication secure correctional facility and fails to enroll
1-17     in school or a student who leaves a residential treatment center
1-18     after receiving treatment for fewer than 85 days and fails to
1-19     enroll in school may not be considered to have dropped out from the
1-20     campus or school district serving the facility or center unless
1-21     that campus or district is the one to which the student is
1-22     regularly assigned.
1-23           SECTION 2. This Act applies to the computation of dropout
1-24     rates beginning with the computation made for the 2001-2002 school
1-25     year.
1-26           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-27     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-28     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-29     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-30     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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