Bill Text: TX HB2519 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a study on dropout prevention and recovery before the ninth grade.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2519 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2519-Comm_Sub.html
85R11797 SRS-F | ||
By: Stucky, González of El Paso, VanDeaver, | H.B. No. 2519 | |
Koop, Lambert |
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relating to a study on dropout prevention and recovery before the | ||
ninth grade. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.919 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.919. MIDDLE GRADES DROPOUT PREVENTION AND RECOVERY | ||
STUDY. (a) The agency shall conduct a study to identify the best | ||
practices for: | ||
(1) reducing the number of students who drop out of | ||
school before entering the ninth grade; and | ||
(2) directing students who drop out of school before | ||
entering the ninth grade toward an appropriate educational program. | ||
(b) The study must examine: | ||
(1) current programs and interventions available to: | ||
(A) students who are enrolled in grades four | ||
through eight and are at risk of dropping out of school; and | ||
(B) students who have dropped out of school | ||
before entering the ninth grade; | ||
(2) barriers to students attempting to reenroll in a | ||
school district or open-enrollment charter school after dropping | ||
out of school before entering the ninth grade; | ||
(3) best practices in this state and other states for | ||
re-engaging students who dropped out of school before entering the | ||
ninth grade; and | ||
(4) the feasibility of adopting a pilot program to | ||
establish an early warning data system beginning with students in | ||
the sixth grade to track each student's attendance, behavior, and | ||
performance in core subjects. | ||
(c) Not later than September 1, 2018, the agency shall | ||
submit a report to the legislature that includes the results of the | ||
study conducted under this section and any recommendations for | ||
legislative or other action. | ||
(d) This section expires January 1, 2019. | ||
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. |