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1		-	By: Huberty (Senate Sponsor - Garcia) H.B. No. 3075
2		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2017;
3		-	May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
4		-	Education; May 22, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
5		-	Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 22, 2017, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
	1	+	H.B. No. 3075
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9		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	4		AN ACT
11	5		relating to excluding certain students from the computation of
12	6		dropout and completion rates for purposes of public school
13	7		accountability.
14	8		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	9		SECTION 1. Sections 39.053(g-1) and (g-2), Education Code,
16	10		are amended to read as follows:
17	11		(g-1) In computing dropout and completion rates under
18	12		Subsections (c)(4)(A)(i) and (B)(ii)(a), the commissioner shall
19	13		exclude:
20	14		(1) students who are ordered by a court to attend a
21	15		high school equivalency certificate program but who have not yet
22	16		earned a high school equivalency certificate;
23	17		(2) students who were previously reported to the state
24	18		as dropouts, including a student who is reported as a dropout,
25	19		reenrolls, and drops out again, regardless of the number of times of
26	20		reenrollment and dropping out;
27	21		(3) students in attendance who are not in membership
28	22		for purposes of average daily attendance;
29	23		(4) students whose initial enrollment in a school in
30	24		the United States in grades 7 through 12 was as unschooled refugees
31	25		or asylees as defined by Section 39.027(a-1);
32	26		(5) students who are detained at a county
33	27		pre-adjudication or post-adjudication juvenile detention facility
34	28		and:
35	29		(A) in the district exclusively as a function of
36	30		having been detained at the [a county detention] facility but are
37	31		otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is
38	32		located; or
39	33		(B) provided services by an open-enrollment
40	34		charter school exclusively as the result of having been detained at
41	35		the facility; and
42	36		(6) students who are incarcerated in state jails and
43	37		federal penitentiaries as adults and as persons certified to stand
44	38		trial as adults.
45	39		(g-2) In computing completion rates under Subsection
46	40		(c)(4)(A)(i) [(c)(2)], the commissioner shall exclude students
47	41		who:
48	42		(1) are at least 18 years of age as of September 1 of
49	43		the school year as reported for the fall semester Public Education
50	44		Information Management System (PEIMS) submission and have
51	45		satisfied the credit requirements for high school graduation;
52	46		(2) have not completed their individualized education
53	47		program under 19 T.A.C. Section 89.1070(b)(2) and the Individuals
54	48		with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1400 et seq.);
55	49		and
56	50		(3) are enrolled and receiving individualized
57	51		education program services.
58	52		SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
59	53		school year.
60	54		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
61	55		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
62	56		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
63	57		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
64	58		Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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	59	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	60	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	61	+	I certify that H.B. No. 3075 was passed by the House on April
	62	+	25, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	63	+	voting.
	64	+	______________________________
	65	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	66	+	I certify that H.B. No. 3075 was passed by the Senate on May
	67	+	24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	68	+	______________________________
	69	+	Secretary of the Senate
	70	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	71	+	Date
	72	+	_____________________
	73	+	Governor