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1	1	By: Garcia, Huffines S.B. No. 727
2	2	(In the Senate - Filed February 3, 2017; February 21, 2017,
3	3	read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
4	4	May 3, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
5	5	Nays 0; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.)
6	6	Click here to see the committee vote
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9	9	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	10	AN ACT
11	11	relating to excluding certain students from the computation of
12	12	dropout and completion rates for purposes of public school
13	13	accountability.
14	14	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	15	SECTION 1. Sections 39.053(g-1) and (g-2), Education Code,
16	16	are amended to read as follows:
17	17	(g-1) In computing dropout and completion rates under
18	18	Subsections (c)(4)(A)(i) and (B)(ii)(a), the commissioner shall
19	19	exclude:
20	20	(1) students who are ordered by a court to attend a
21	21	high school equivalency certificate program but who have not yet
22	22	earned a high school equivalency certificate;
23	23	(2) students who were previously reported to the state
24	24	as dropouts, including a student who is reported as a dropout,
25	25	reenrolls, and drops out again, regardless of the number of times of
26	26	reenrollment and dropping out;
27	27	(3) students in attendance who are not in membership
28	28	for purposes of average daily attendance;
29	29	(4) students whose initial enrollment in a school in
30	30	the United States in grades 7 through 12 was as unschooled refugees
31	31	or asylees as defined by Section 39.027(a-1);
32	32	(5) students who are detained at a county
33	33	pre-adjudication or post-adjudication juvenile detention facility
34	34	and:
35	35	(A) in the district exclusively as a function of
36	36	having been detained at the [a county detention] facility but are
37	37	otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is
38	38	located; or
39	39	(B) provided services by an open-enrollment
40	40	charter school exclusively as the result of having been detained at
41	41	the facility; and
42	42	(6) students who are incarcerated in state jails and
43	43	federal penitentiaries as adults and as persons certified to stand
44	44	trial as adults.
45	45	(g-2) In computing completion rates under Subsection
46	46	(c)(4)(A)(i) [(c)(2)], the commissioner shall exclude students
47	47	who:
48	48	(1) are at least 18 years of age as of September 1 of
49	49	the school year as reported for the fall semester Public Education
50	50	Information Management System (PEIMS) submission and have
51	51	satisfied the credit requirements for high school graduation;
52	52	(2) have not completed their individualized education
53	53	program under 19 T.A.C. Section 89.1070(b)(2) and the Individuals
54	54	with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1400 et seq.);
55	55	and
56	56	(3) are enrolled and receiving individualized
57	57	education program services.
58	58	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
59	59	school year.
60	60	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
61	61	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
62	62	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
63	63	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
64	64	Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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