By:  Eissler (Senate Sponsor - Williams)                          H.B. No. 1441
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 28, 2003; 
May 1, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Education; May 19, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 19, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to school districts that place an excessive number of 
students in certain special education instructional arrangements.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 42.151(j), Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(j)  Each year, the agency shall make and disseminate to each 
[A] school district a list of those districts that maintain
[maintains] for two successive years a ratio of full-time 
equivalent students placed in partially or totally self-contained 
classrooms to the number of full-time equivalent students placed in 
resource room or mainstream instructional arrangements that is 25 
percent higher than the statewide average ratio [shall be reviewed 
by the agency to determine the appropriateness of student 
placement.  The commissioner may reduce the special education 
allotment the district receives to the level to which the district 
would be entitled if the district's ratio was not more than 25 
percent higher than the statewide average ratio].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           



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