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.