BILL ANALYSIS
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AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
When a child is placed in the conservatorship of the state, the child may be displaced from his or her school, depending on the location of available foster care. This change can have a detrimental effect on the child's development, particularly given the circumstances that lead to state conservatorship. Currently, there is no designated employee in a school district who monitors the transfer or enrollment of such children within public schools. H.B. 826 seeks to ease the negative effects of school transfers on a child in the conservatorship of the state by appointing at least one school district employee as a liaison officer to facilitate the enrollment in or transfer to a public school of such a child.
H.B. 826 amends current law relating to facilitating the enrollment in or transfer to a public school district of a student in the conservatorship of the state.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Subchapter Z, Chapter 33, Education Code, by adding Section 33.904, as follows:
Sec. 33.904. LIAISON FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN IN CONSERVATORSHIP OF STATE. Requires each school district to appoint at least one employee to act as a liaison officer to facilitate the enrollment in or transfer to a public school of a child in the district who is in the conservatorship of the state.
SECTION 2. Requires each school district, not later than December 1, 2011, to appoint the liaison officer required under Section 33.904, Education Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. Effective date: September 1, 2011.