Bill Text: TX HB2116 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of certain students as students at risk of dropping out of school.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-05 - Considered in Calendars [HB2116 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2116-Comm_Sub.html

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86R8132 TSS-D
By: White, Reynolds, Rose, et al. H.B. No. 2116

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the inclusion of certain students as students at risk of
dropping out of school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 29.081(d), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(d) For purposes of this section, "student at risk of
dropping out of school" includes each student who is under 26 years
of age and who:
(1) was not advanced from one grade level to the next
for one or more school years;
(2) if the student is in grade 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12,
did not maintain an average equivalent to 70 on a scale of 100 in two
or more subjects in the foundation curriculum during a semester in
the preceding or current school year or is not maintaining such an
average in two or more subjects in the foundation curriculum in the
current semester;
(3) did not perform satisfactorily on an assessment
instrument administered to the student under Subchapter B, Chapter
39, and who has not in the previous or current school year
subsequently performed on that instrument or another appropriate
instrument at a level equal to at least 110 percent of the level of
satisfactory performance on that instrument;
(4) if the student is in prekindergarten,
kindergarten, or grade 1, 2, or 3, did not perform satisfactorily on
a readiness test or assessment instrument administered during the
current school year;
(5) is pregnant or is a parent;
(6) has been placed in an alternative education
program in accordance with Section 37.006 during the preceding or
current school year;
(7) has been expelled in accordance with Section
37.007 during the preceding or current school year;
(8) is currently on parole, probation, deferred
prosecution, or other conditional release;
(9) was previously reported through the Public
Education Information Management System (PEIMS) to have dropped out
of school;
(10) is a student of limited English proficiency, as
defined by Section 29.052;
(11) is in the custody or care of the Department of
Family and Protective Services or has, during the current school
year, been referred to the department by a school official, officer
of the juvenile court, or law enforcement official;
(12) is homeless, as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section
11302, and its subsequent amendments; [or]
(13) resided in the preceding school year or resides
in the current school year in a residential placement facility in
the district, including a detention facility, substance abuse
treatment facility, emergency shelter, psychiatric hospital,
halfway house, cottage home operation, specialized child-care
home, or general residential operation; or
(14) has been incarcerated or has a parent or guardian
who has been incarcerated, within the lifetime of the student, in a
penal institution as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code.
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, 2019.