Bill Text: TX HB3398 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to challenges by school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to accountability determinations.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-09 - Left pending in committee [HB3398 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3398-Introduced.html
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| By: Johnson of Harris | H.B. No. 3398 | |
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| relating to challenges by school districts and open-enrollment | ||
| charter schools to accountability determinations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39.151, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) The rules under Subsection (a) must provide for the | ||
| commissioner to appoint a committee to make recommendations to the | ||
| commissioner on a challenge made to an agency decision relating to | ||
| an academic performance rating or determination or financial | ||
| accountability rating. The committee shall review the challenge | ||
| regardless of the issue identified in the challenge by the school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school. The commissioner may | ||
| not appoint an agency employee as a member of the committee. | ||
| (c-1) The commissioner may not limit a challenge relating to | ||
| a data or calculation error or inaccuracy attributable to the | ||
| school district or open-enrollment charter school, even if the | ||
| challenge demonstrates the data or calculation error or inaccuracy | ||
| caused the district or school to have a lower academic or financial | ||
| accountability rating. If a challenge demonstrates that the data | ||
| or calculation error or inaccuracy caused the district or school to | ||
| have a lower academic or financial accountability rating, the | ||
| commissioner shall assign the district or school the corrected | ||
| rating or shall indicate that the district or school will not be | ||
| rated for that school year. The commissioner may not revoke the | ||
| charter of an open-enrollment charter school as provided by Section | ||
| 12.115(c) or allow the charter to expire as provided by Section | ||
| 12.1141(d) if for one of the school years considered for the | ||
| commissioner's decision the school is not rated as provided by this | ||
| subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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. | ||
