Bill Text: TX HB2976 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to parental involvement in certain procedures regarding a school campus receiving an unacceptable performance rating under certain circumstances.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-30 - Left pending in committee [HB2976 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2976-Introduced.html

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By: N. Gonzalez of El Paso H.B. No. 2976

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to parental involvement in certain procedures regarding a
school campus receiving an unacceptable performance rating under
certain circumstances.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 39.107(a), (e), and (e-2), are amended
to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (e-2), after [After] a
campus has been identified as unacceptable for two consecutive
school years, the commissioner shall order the reconstitution of
the campus.
(e) If a campus is considered to have an unacceptable
performance rating for two [three] consecutive school years after
the campus is reconstituted under Subsection (a), the commissioner,
subject to Subsection (e-1) or (e-2), shall order:
(1) repurposing of the campus under this section;
(2) alternative management of the campus under this
section; or
(3) closure of the campus.
(e-2) For purposes of this subsection, "parent" has the
meaning assigned by Section 12.051. If the commissioner is
presented, in the time and manner specified by commissioner rule, a
written petition signed by the parents of a majority of the students
enrolled at a campus to which Subsection (a) or (e) applies,
specifying an [the] action described by Subsection (e)(1), (2), or
(3) that the parents request the commissioner to order, the
commissioner shall [, except as otherwise authorized by this
subsection,] order the specific action requested. The commissioner
shall adopt rules defining the role of parents in the
implementation of the requested action, including selection of an
alternative management provider or entity engaged for repurposing,
as applicable [If the board of trustees of the school district in
which the campus is located presents to the commissioner, in the
time and manner specified by commissioner rule, a written request
that the commissioner order specific action authorized under
Subsection (c) other than the specific action requested in the
parents' petition and a written explanation of the basis for the
board's request, the commissioner may order the action requested by
the board of trustees].
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply
beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act supersede any
other law to the extent of a conflict.
SECTION 4. 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, 2013.