81R21242 EAH-D
By: Strama, Guillen, et al. H.B. No. 2018
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the inclusion of a student representative on a
district-level planning and decision-making committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 11.251(b) and (e), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(b) The board shall adopt a policy to establish a district-
and campus-level planning and decision-making process that will
involve the professional staff of the district, parents, students,
and community members in establishing and reviewing the district's
and campuses' educational plans, goals, performance objectives,
and major classroom instructional programs. The board shall
establish a procedure under which meetings are held regularly by
district- and campus-level planning and decision-making committees
that include representative professional staff, parents of
students enrolled in the district, business representatives, and
community members. The board of trustees of a school district that
includes at least one high school campus shall establish a
procedure under which a student representative is included as a
member of the district-level committee. The committees shall
include a business representative without regard to whether the
representative resides in the district or whether the business the
person represents is located in the district. The board, or the
board's designee, shall periodically meet with the district-level
committee to review the district-level committee's deliberations.
(e) The board shall adopt a procedure, consistent with
Section 21.407(a), for the professional staff in the district to
nominate and elect the professional staff representatives who shall
meet with the board or the board designee as required under this
section. At least two-thirds of the elected professional staff
representatives must be classroom teachers. The remaining staff
representatives shall include both campus- and district-level
professional staff members. Board policy must provide procedures
for:
(1) the selection of parents to the district-level and
campus-level committees; [and]
(2) the selection of community members and business
representatives to serve on the district-level committee in a
manner that provides for appropriate representation of the
community's diversity; and
(3) the selection of a student representative to the
district-level committee.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2009-2010
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, 2009.