BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 2025

By: Gonzales, Larry

Public Education

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Interested parties suggest that the success of three-year high school diploma plan pilot programs in Dallas and Houston should be tested on a smaller scale for purposes of considering statewide implementation. H.B. 2025 aims to allow school districts with smaller enrollments to participate in the pilot program.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 2025 amends the Education Code to include a school district with an enrollment of more than 5,000 but less than 7,000 students and located primarily in a county that contains the headwaters of the San Gabriel River among the school districts that may develop and implement a pilot program for students who wish to obtain a high school diploma after completion of three years of secondary school attendance as an alternative to the traditional four-year period of attendance.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2015.