78R13321 E


By:  Chavez                                                       H.B. No. 2449

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2449:                                   

By:  Madden                                                   C.S.H.B. No. 2449



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to inclusion for public school accountability purposes of 
a student attending a dropout prevention program for students from 
more than one campus.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 39.072, Education Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
	(d)  For purposes of Subsection (c), a student who attends a 
program serving students who are pregnant or parents that is based 
at a single campus but serves students from more than one campus is 
considered to be a student at the campus to which the student would 
regularly be assigned.  The commissioner may make rules to 
implement this section and may implement this section by an appeal 
of the campus rating.
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies to inclusion of a student for 
purposes of public school accountability beginning with the 
2003-2004 school year.  A district may apply to the commissioner for 
a determination of what rating a campus rating would have had during 
the 2002-2003 school year if this Act had been in effect.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.