Bill Text: TX HB363 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition of a monitoring system performance indicator based on the number or percentage of students receiving special education services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-16 - Referred to Public Education [HB363 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB363-Introduced.html
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| By: Huberty | H.B. No. 363 | |
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| relating to a prohibition of a monitoring system performance | ||
| indicator based on the number or percentage of students receiving | ||
| special education services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.0011 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.0011. PROHIBITED PERFORMANCE INDICATOR. (a) | ||
| Notwithstanding Section 29.001(5), Section 29.010, or any other | ||
| provision of this code, the commissioner or agency may not adopt or | ||
| implement a performance indicator in any agency monitoring system, | ||
| including the performance-based monitoring analysis system, that | ||
| evaluates the total number of enrolled students or the overall | ||
| percentage of the total number of enrolled students of a school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school who receive special | ||
| education services. | ||
| (b) Subsection (a) does not: | ||
| (1) prohibit a performance indicator designed to | ||
| monitor disproportionality by assessing the percentage of specific | ||
| racial or ethnic groups who receive special education services; or | ||
| (2) affect the duty of the commissioner or agency to | ||
| provide and report information as required by state or federal law | ||
| on students who receive special education services. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2017. | ||
