By: Zaffirini	S.B. No. 54
	(In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2018; February 1, 2019,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
	April 8, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 8, 2019,
	sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 54	By:  West

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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.  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.
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