Bill Text: TX HB795 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 795 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to public school accountability

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-21 - Left pending in committee [HB795 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB795-Introduced.html



	By: Johnson of Harris	H.B. No. 795



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to public school accountability
	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 2017-2018
	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, 2017.