Bill Text: TX SB1867 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to excluding certain adult students receiving special education services from computation of completion rates for purposes of public school accountability.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [SB1867 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1867-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1867 |
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relating to excluding certain adult students receiving special | ||
education services from computation of completion rates for | ||
purposes of public school accountability. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.053, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (g-2) to read as follows: | ||
(g-2) In computing completion rates under Subsection | ||
(c)(2), the commissioner shall exclude students who: | ||
(1) are at least 18 years of age as of September 1 of | ||
the school year as reported for the fall semester Public Education | ||
Information Management System (PEIMS) submission and have | ||
satisfied the credit requirements for high school graduation; | ||
(2) have not completed their individualized education | ||
program under 19 T.A.C. Section 89.1070(b)(2) and the Individuals | ||
with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1400 et seq.); | ||
and | ||
(3) are enrolled and receiving individualized | ||
education program services. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
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, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1867 passed the Senate on | ||
May 4, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the | ||
Senate concurred in House amendment on May 30, 2015, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1867 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144, | ||
Nays 0, two present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |