By: Zaffirini  S.B. No. 54
         (In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2018; February 1, 2019,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
  April 8, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 8, 2019,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 54 By:  West
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to a study regarding the appropriate methods and standards
  to evaluate certain students participating in regional day school
  programs for the deaf.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  STUDY REGARDING METHODS AND STANDARDS TO
  EVALUATE CERTAIN STUDENTS.  (a)  The Texas Education Agency shall
  conduct a study regarding appropriate methods and standards to
  evaluate the performance, separately from the performance of other
  students attending the district or campus in which the program is
  physically located, of a student who spends at least 50 percent of
  the instructional day participating in a regional day school
  program for the deaf under Subchapter D, Chapter 30, Education
  Code, and whose parent or person standing in parental relation to
  the student does not reside in the school district providing
  program services.
         (b)  Not later than September 1, 2020, the Texas Education
  Agency shall provide a report of the study required by Subsection
  (a) of this section and any recommendations for legislative action
  to each standing committee of the legislature having primary
  jurisdiction over public education.
         (c)  This section expires September 1, 2021.
         SECTION 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  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, 2019.
 
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