Bill Text: TX SB2403 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to required reporting regarding a school district's program for gifted and talented students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB2403 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2403-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Springer | S.B. No. 2403 | |
| (Allison) | ||
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| relating to required reporting regarding a school district's | ||
| program for gifted and talented students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.124 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.124. PEIMS REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. Each school | ||
| district shall include the following information in the district's | ||
| Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) report: | ||
| (1) the name and contact information of the district | ||
| administrator responsible for ensuring that the district is in | ||
| compliance with this subchapter; | ||
| (2) whether the district uses data from an entire | ||
| grade level to identify gifted and talented students; and | ||
| (3) if applicable, the grade levels for which the | ||
| district identifies gifted and talented students as described by | ||
| Subdivision (2). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 39.306, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (d-1) and adding Subsection (d-2) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (d-1) The comparison provided by the agency under | ||
| Subsection (d) must include a comparison of college, career, and | ||
| military readiness achievement between students served in a program | ||
| for gifted and talented students and students served in other | ||
| programs. | ||
| (d-2) The report must also include the number of school | ||
| counselors providing counseling services at each campus. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
