By: Taylor of Galveston S.R. No. 1066
SENATE RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 84th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on
House Bill 1842 (public school accountability, including the
intervention in and sanction of a public school that has received
an academically unsuccessful performance rating for at least two
consecutive school years and the designation of a school district
as a district of innovation) to consider and take action on the
following matter:
Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the committee
to add text on a matter which is not included in either the house
or senate version of the bill in proposed SECTION 12 of the bill,
in added Section 39.107(g-1), Education Code, to read as follows:
(g-1) If the commissioner orders alternative management
of a campus under Subsection (d)(2), the school district shall
execute a contract with a managing entity for a term not to exceed
five years. The commissioner may require a district to extend
the term of the contract if the commissioner determines that
extending the contract on expiration of the initial term is in
the best interest of the students attending the campus. The
terms of the contract must be approved by the commissioner. If a
campus receives an academically unacceptable performance rating
for two consecutive school years after the managing entity
assumes management of the campus, the commissioner shall cancel
the contract with the managing entity.
Explanation: This change is necessary to ensure that the
commissioner of education may require a school district to extend
the term of a contract with a managing entity for the alternative
management of a campus if the commissioner determines the
extension is in the best interest of the students attending the
campus.
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President of the Senate
I hereby certify that the
above Resolution was adopted by
the Senate on May 31, 2015, by
the following vote: Yeas 26,
Nays 5.
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Secretary of the Senate