By: Deuell S.B. No. 1109
(In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2013; March 12, 2013, read
first time and referred to Committee on Education; March 27, 2013,
reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
March 27, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to suspending public school accountability ratings and
certain interventions and sanctions for the 2012-2013 school year.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.116, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a), (b), (e), (f), and (g) and adding
Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
(a) During the period of transition to the accreditation
system established under H.B. No. 3, Acts of the 81st Legislature,
Regular Session, 2009, to be implemented in August 2013, the
commissioner shall [may] suspend assignment of accreditation
statuses and performance ratings for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013
school years [year].
(b) As soon as practicable following the 2012-2013
[2011-2012] school year, the commissioner shall report district and
campus performance under the student achievement indicators under
Sections 39.053(c)(1)(A) and (B).
(e) During the 2011-2012, [and] 2012-2013, and 2013-2014
school years, the commissioner shall continue to implement
interventions and sanctions for districts and campuses identified
as having unacceptable performance in the 2010-2011 school year in
accordance with the performance standards applicable during the
2010-2011 school year and may increase or decrease the level of
interventions and sanctions based on an evaluation of the
district's or campus's performance.
(e-1) Subsection (e) does not apply to districts or campuses
that would have improved performance ratings had the performance
standards applicable during the 2012-2013 school year been in
effect in the 2010-2011 school year.
(f) For purposes of determining multiple years of
unacceptable performance and required district and campus
interventions and sanctions under this subchapter, the performance
ratings and accreditation statuses issued in the 2010-2011 and
2013-2014 [2012-2013] school years shall be considered
consecutive.
(g) This section expires September 1, 2015 [2014].
SECTION 2. Subsection (c), Section 39.116, Education Code,
is repealed.
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, 2013.
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