Bill Text: TX HB674 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to soliciting from school districts served by a regional education service center certain information in conjunction with the annual evaluation of the center.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-28 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB674 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB674-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Patterson (Senate Sponsor - Fallon) H.B. No. 674
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 8, 2019;
April 9, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 10, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 10, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to soliciting from school districts served by a regional
education service center certain information in conjunction with
the annual evaluation of the center.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 8.103, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 8.103. ANNUAL EVALUATION. (a) The commissioner shall
conduct an annual evaluation of each executive director and
regional education service center. Each evaluation must include:
(1) an audit of the center's finances;
(2) a review of the center's performance on the
indicators adopted under Section 8.101;
(3) a review of client satisfaction with services
provided under Subchapter B; and
(4) a review of any other factor the commissioner
determines to be appropriate.
(b) In conjunction with the review of client satisfaction
conducted under Subsection (a)(3), the commissioner shall solicit
from each school district served by a regional education service
center information regarding:
(1) the reliance of the district on the center for
assistance in complying with state education laws and rules; and
(2) the specific state education laws or rules with
which compliance is the most burdensome and expensive.
(c) The information solicited under Subsection (b) may not
be considered in the annual evaluation of a regional education
service center.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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