Bill Text: TX HB3011 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to provide to a school district certain information used in determining academic accountability ratings for the district.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3011 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3011-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Turner of Tarrant H.B. No. 3011
(Senate Sponsor - Powell, West)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 25, 2019;
April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 19, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
to provide to a school district certain information used in
determining academic accountability ratings for the district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.059 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.059. DATA TRANSPARENCY. (a) In this section:
(1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.
(2) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) Before the initial release of academic accountability
ratings for a school year, the coordinating board shall provide to
each school district a copy of all source data as submitted to the
coordinating board by an institution of higher education that the
coordinating board provides to the agency to consider in:
(1) determining the district's accreditation status
under Section 39.052; or
(2) assigning performance ratings for the district or
the district's campuses under Section 39.054.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
school year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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