By:  Dutton                                                       H.B. No. 2436



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the operation of public primary and secondary schools.            
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  (a)  The commissioner of education shall review 
the provisions of Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, 
pertaining to the operation of public primary and secondary 
schools, including provisions relating to transfers of students 
between campuses, districts, and counties; the length of the school 
day; school day interruptions; the length and the start of the 
school year; and the permissible number of excused absences for a 
student, for the purpose of determining whether fiscal efficiencies 
and improvement in instructional capabilities would result from 
changes to those provisions.
	(b)  The commissioner shall present a report of the review 
required by this section to the 79th Legislature, together with the 
commissioner's recommendations for changes, by filing a copy of the 
report not later than December 1, 2004, with the governor, the 
lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, 
and the presiding officers of the committees in each house of the 
legislature having primary jurisdiction over public primary and 
secondary education.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.