BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 4111 |
By: Allen |
Public Education |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Concerns have been raised that an open-enrollment charter school's charter may be revoked solely on the basis of a simple data entry error. The goal of C.S.H.B. 4111 is to prevent such a revocation by providing for the correction of such a school's academic rating in cases involving a data error.
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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.
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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.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 4111 amends the Education Code to prohibit, for purposes of revoking the charter of an open-enrollment charter school because the charter holder has been assigned an unacceptable performance rating for the three preceding school years, the performance for the 2015-2016 school year from being considered unacceptable if, but for a data error reported by the open‑enrollment charter school to the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS), the school would have received an acceptable rating under the accountability procedures applicable to the school. The bill requires the commissioner of education, if a charter school demonstrates that the school would have received an acceptable rating but for the data error reported by the school, to assign the school the corrected rating. These provisions expire September 1, 2019.
C.S.H.B. 4111 expressly stays a proceeding to revoke a charter or accept the surrender of a charter in lieu of revocation pending on the bill's effective date until the open-enrollment charter school is given an opportunity to demonstrate a data error claim.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 4111 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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