By: Deuell S.B. No. 1109
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to suspending public school accountability ratings and
  certain interventions and sanctions for the 2012-2013 school year.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 39.116, Education Code, is amended by
  amending Subsections (a), (b), (e), (f), and (g) and adding
  Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
         (a)  During the period of transition to the accreditation
  system established under H.B. No. 3, Acts of the 81st Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2009, to be implemented in August 2013, the
  commissioner shall [may] suspend assignment of accreditation
  statuses and performance ratings for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013
  school years [year].
         (b)  As soon as practicable following the 2012-2013
  [2011-2012] school year, the commissioner shall report district and
  campus performance under the student achievement indicators under
  Sections 39.053(c)(1)(A) and (B).
         (e)  During the 2011-2012, [and] 2012-2013, and 2013-2014
  school years, the commissioner shall continue to implement
  interventions and sanctions for districts and campuses identified
  as having unacceptable performance in the 2010-2011 school year in
  accordance with the performance standards applicable during the
  2010-2011 school year and may increase or decrease the level of
  interventions and sanctions based on an evaluation of the
  district's or campus's performance.
         (e-1)  Subsection (e) does not apply to districts or campuses
  that would have improved performance ratings had the performance
  standards applicable during the 2012-2013 school year been in
  effect in the 2010-2011 school year.
         (f)  For purposes of determining multiple years of
  unacceptable performance and required district and campus
  interventions and sanctions under this subchapter, the performance
  ratings and accreditation statuses issued in the 2010-2011 and
  2013-2014 [2012-2013] school years shall be considered
  consecutive.
         (g)  This section expires September 1, 2015 [2014].
         SECTION 2.  Subsection (c), Section 39.116, Education Code,
  is repealed.
         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, 2013.