BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 3075

By: Huberty

Public Education

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Interested parties note that there are exemptions under the public school accountability system related to the dropout and completion rates for public school districts that serve vulnerable populations, but not for open-enrollment charter schools that exclusively serve such populations. H.B. 3075 seeks to extend these exemptions to open-enrollment charter schools.

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. 3075 amends the Education Code to clarify that the exclusion from the computation of dropout and completion rates for the purposes of public school accountability of students who are in a public school district exclusively as a function of having been detained at a county detention facility but are otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is located applies to detention at a county pre-adjudication or post-adjudication juvenile detention facility. The bill requires the commissioner of education to exclude students detained at such facilities and provided services by an open-enrollment charter school exclusively as the result of having been detained at the facility from the computation of dropout and completion rates. The bill applies beginning with the 2017-2018 school year.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.