By:  Eissler                                                      H.B. No. 2825



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the authority of the commissioner of education to waive 
certain monitoring or reporting requirements.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 7.056, Education Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
	(h)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or 
other law, the commissioner may waive any state law or rule to the 
extent that the law or rule imposes a more strenuous reporting or 
monitoring requirement on a school district than the reporting or 
monitoring that is required by federal law, rule, or regulation 
applicable to the subject matter of the state law or rule.  Nothing 
in this subsection should be construed to allow the commissioner to 
waive any law or rule when such waiver would jeopardize the health, 
safety, or welfare of a child.
	SECTION 2.  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.