Bill Text: TX SB54 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a study regarding the appropriate methods and standards to evaluate certain students participating in regional day school programs for the deaf.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Effective immediately [SB54 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB54-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 54 |
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relating to a study regarding the appropriate methods and standards | ||
to evaluate certain students participating in regional day school | ||
programs for the deaf. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. STUDY REGARDING METHODS AND STANDARDS TO | ||
EVALUATE CERTAIN STUDENTS. (a) The Texas Education Agency shall | ||
conduct a study regarding appropriate methods and standards to | ||
evaluate the performance, separately from the performance of other | ||
students attending the district or campus in which the program is | ||
physically located, of a student who spends at least 50 percent of | ||
the instructional day participating in a regional day school | ||
program for the deaf under Subchapter D, Chapter 30, Education | ||
Code, and whose parent or person standing in parental relation to | ||
the student does not reside in the school district providing | ||
program services. | ||
(b) Not later than September 1, 2020, the Texas Education | ||
Agency shall provide a report of the study required by Subsection | ||
(a) of this section and any recommendations for legislative action | ||
to each standing committee of the legislature having primary | ||
jurisdiction over public education. | ||
(c) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 2. IMPLEMENTATION. The Texas Education Agency is | ||
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, the Texas Education Agency may, but is not required to, | ||
implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations | ||
available for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 54 passed the Senate on | ||
April 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 54 passed the House on | ||
May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 112, Nays 31, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |