HBA-SEB H.B. 296 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 296
By: Wise
Public Education
4/19/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

As passed by the 74th Legislature, Senate Bill 1 eliminated a provision
within the law regarding accreditation investigations concerning a school
district's site-based decision-making (SBDM) process.  H.B. 296 sets forth
a requirement that the commissioner of education must authorize a special
investigation of a school district's SBDM process upon an allegation that
it is not functioning properly. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 39.075(a), Education Code, to expand a list of
circumstances under which the commissioner of education is required to
authorize a special accreditation investigation. Includes as such a
circumstance the occasion when a person who has exhausted the school
district's grievance process alleges that the district-level and site-based
decision-making process under Subchapter F, Chapter 11 (District-Level and
Site-Based Decision-Making), does not function properly.  The
district-level and site-based decision-making process involves the
establishing and reviewing of district improvement plans and educational
objectives by the school district's board of trustees, community members,
parents, and the district's professional staff. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.