Bill Text: TX HB2797 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to evaluation under the state accountability system of school district campuses that enroll certain students who receive special education services.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-10 - Referred to Education [HB2797 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2797-Introduced.html

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86R10192 MP-F
By: Hinojosa H.B. No. 2797

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to evaluation under the state accountability system of
school district campuses that enroll only certain students who
receive special education services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.0547 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.0547. EVALUATING SPECIALIZED SUPPORT CAMPUSES. (a)
In this section, "specialized support campus" means a school
district campus that:
(1) has a campus identification number;
(2) serves students enrolled in any grade level at
which state assessment instruments are administered; and
(3) is composed of only students who:
(A) receive special education services under
Subchapter A, Chapter 29; and
(B) have significant medical or intensive
behavioral needs as documented by the students' individualized
education programs under Section 29.005.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the
commissioner shall determine, report, and consider the performance
of students enrolled in a specialized support campus separately
from the school district that operates the campus for purposes of:
(1) measures of annual improvement in student
achievement under Section 39.034;
(2) achievement indicators under Section 39.053; and
(3) additional performance indicators under Section
39.301.
(c) The commissioner, in consultation with administrators
of specialized support campuses, parents and guardians of students
enrolled at specialized support campuses, and other stakeholders,
shall adopt appropriate accountability indicators under this
chapter for each specialized support campus based on the specific
student population served by the campus.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
school year.
SECTION 3. 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.