By: Zaffirini, Lucio S.B. No. 54
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a study regarding the appropriate methods and standards
to evaluate certain students participating in regional day school
programs for the deaf.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. STUDY REGARDING METHODS AND STANDARDS TO
EVALUATE CERTAIN STUDENTS. (a) The Texas Education Agency shall
conduct a study regarding appropriate methods and standards to
evaluate the performance, separately from the performance of other
students attending the district or campus in which the program is
physically located, of a student who spends at least 50 percent of
the instructional day participating in a regional day school
program for the deaf under Subchapter D, Chapter 30, Education
Code, and whose parent or person standing in parental relation to
the student does not reside in the school district providing
program services.
(b) Not later than September 1, 2020, the Texas Education
Agency shall provide a report of the study required by Subsection
(a) of this section and any recommendations for legislative action
to each standing committee of the legislature having primary
jurisdiction over public education.
(c) This section expires September 1, 2021.
SECTION 2. IMPLEMENTATION. The Texas Education Agency is
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If
the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that
purpose, the Texas Education Agency may, but is not required to,
implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations
available for that purpose.
SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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, 2019.