85R2353 KKA-F
By: Menéndez S.B. No. 214
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition of a monitoring system performance
indicator based on the number or percentage of students receiving
special education services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 29.0011 to read as follows:
Sec. 29.0011. PROHIBITED PERFORMANCE INDICATOR.
Notwithstanding Section 29.001(5), Section 29.010, or any other
provision of this code, the commissioner or agency may not adopt or
implement a performance indicator in any agency monitoring system,
including the performance-based monitoring analysis system, that
evaluates the total number of students or the percentage of
enrolled students of a school district or open-enrollment charter
school who receive special education services.
SECTION 2. 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, 2017.