** REVISION **
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:   Public Education 

TIME & DATE: Upon final adjourn./recess
Tuesday, April 09, 2013 

PLACE:       E2.036 
CHAIR:       Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock 

HB 44         Flynn | et al.
Relating to a moratorium on administering assessment instruments to public school students under the public school accountability system.

HB 274        Alvarado               
Relating to reporting requirements applicable to school districts that obtain exceptions from class size limits.

HB 599        Lozano                 
Relating to educator retention at certain public schools.

HB 904        González, Mary         
Relating to a requirement for school districts to report class size to the Texas Education Agency.

HB 921        Alonzo                 
Relating to establishing the Texas State Seal of Bilingualism and Biliteracy for recognition of high school graduates who attain a high level of proficiency in both English and another language.

HB 1374       Dutton | et al.
Relating to equal opportunity for access by home-schooled students to University Interscholastic League sponsored activities; authorizing a fee.

HB 1415       Schaefer | et al.
Relating to the issuance of school district teaching permits to persons who teach only career and technology education classes.

HB 1525       Krause | et al.        
Relating to prohibiting the board of trustees of an independent school district from exercising disparate treatment in allowing access to school campuses during non-instructional time based on the religious nature of an organization.

HB 1568       Springer | et al.      
Relating to funding under the Foundation School Program for a school district that offers insurance benefits to a person who is not a dependent of a district employee.

HB 1957       Dutton                 
Relating to the establishment of the recovery school district.

HB 2004       González, Mary         
Relating to the determination of certain exemptions from the administration of state assessment instruments to public school students and to the consideration of the performance of certain students on state assessment instruments.

HB 2076       Flynn                  
Relating to alternative assessment of certain public school students under the public school accountability system.

HB 2104       Dutton                 
Relating to charter schools and accurately accounting for workforce development statistics.

HB 2182       Flynn                  
Relating to the required completion date of a report concerning an initial evaluation of a student for purposes of special education services.

HB 2542       Gutierrez              
Relating to a study comparing the effects on school district consolidation for Bexar County.

HB 2610       Pitts                  
Relating to the issuance of interest-bearing time warrants and certain notes by school districts.

HB 2662       Farney                 
Relating to requiring a personal financial literacy credit for graduation under the recommended and advanced high school programs.

HB 2666       Taylor, Van            
Relating to the first day of the school year for public schools.

HB 2824       Ratliff | et al.       
Relating to the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium.

HB 2983       Dutton                 
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Education Agency and to the abolition of the State Board for Educator Certification and the transfer of its functions to the Texas Education Agency; changing the amounts of certain fees.

HB 3573       Aycock                 
Relating to the requirements for obtaining a health science technology education teaching certificate and to the scope of courses a person may teach holding a technology applications teaching certificate.

Public testimony may be limited to (3) three minutes. 

Bills added after last posting:

HB 1374

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