** REVISION ** HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Public Education TIME & DATE: 2:00PM or upon final adjourn./recess Tuesday, April 8, 2003 PLACE: E2.036 CHAIR: Rep. Kent Grusendorf ___________________________________________________________________________ HB 16 Corte Relating to the expulsion of students for assault of school employees. HB 107 Chavez / et al. Relating to certain requirements for prekindergarten programs for public school students. HB 214 McCall / et al. Relating to participation in school district services and activities by home-schooled students. HB 387 Hamric Relating to the content of public school campus improvement plans. HB 411 Grusendorf Relating to improvement of science instruction and student performance in public schools. HB 442 Talton Relating to the placement of public school students who engage in conduct that contains the elements of certain sexual offenses. HB 447 Hochberg Relating to state assessment of academic skills of public school students in special education programs. HB 495 Grusendorf Relating to the administration by school districts of college preparation achievement assessment instruments to certain students. HB 521 Grusendorf Relating to state assessment of public school students in social studies in the fifth grade and in science in the eighth grade. HB 567 Berman Relating to the expulsion of a public school student who assaults, murders, or attempts to murder another student. HB 817 Hochberg Relating to the percent of questions that must be answered correctly to meet the performance standards on assessment instruments used in the public school accountability system. HB 818 Hochberg Relating to the setting of performance levels on assessment instruments used in the public school accountability system. HB 1406 Brown, Betty / et al. Relating to a recommendation by a school district employee concerning a use of a psychotropic drug by a student or psychiatric evaluation or examination of a student and to refusal by a parent or certain other person to consent to administration of a psychotropic drug to a student or to psychiatric evaluation or examination of a student. HB 1440 Eissler Relating to the frequency of public school teacher appraisals. HB 1441 Eissler Relating to the penalty imposed on school districts for placing an excessive number of special education students in certain instructional arrangements. HB 1518 Dutton Relating to accountability for public school dropouts and students at risk of dropping out of school. HB 2101 Wong Relating to a Texas professional teacher's academy program. HB 2102 Wong Relating to sabbaticals for experienced public school teachers. HB 2217 Grusendorf Relating to the use of funds for schools designated recognized or exemplary by the State Board of Education. HB 2220 Grusendorf Relating to academic achievement in public schools. HB 2520 Dutton Relating to limiting the adoption and enforcement of certain rules by the board of trustees of a school district. HB 2804 Giddings Relating to school district internship programs in which students earn local credit for high school graduation by working with elected government officials. HB 2825 Eissler Relating to the authority of the commissioner of education to waive certain monitoring or reporting requirements. HB 2964 Howard Relating to the maintaining of municipal school district status; and the levy of municipal school district taxes. ___________________________________________________________________________