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Signed into law 06/2013 | Career/Technical Education |
P-12,
Postsec. | Texas Workforce Innovation Needs Program
H.B. 3662
Creates the Texas Workforce Innovation Needs Program. Provides the purposes of the program are to provide selected districts, and public and private or independent institutions of higher education, with the opportunity to establish innovative programs designed...
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Signed into law 06/2013 | Career/Technical Education |
P-12 | Skills Development Fund Dollars to Support Certain Dual Credit Programs
H.B. 3028
Permits the Texas Workforce Commission to use up to 5% of the general revenue appropriated to the skills development fund for that biennium, along with funds available to the commission from other sources, to be awarded to a public junior college, public state...
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Signed into law 06/2013 | Leadership--District Superintendent |
P-12 | Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey
H.B. 2012 - Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey
Directs the commissioner of education to develop an online survey to be administered statewide at least every other year to superintendents, principals, supervisors, classroom teachers, counselors, and other appropriate certified, full-time professionals. Requ...
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Signed into law 06/2013 | No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
P-12 | Supplemental Education Service Providers
H.B. 753
Defines "rigorous research." Requires districts to include, in annual notice to parents of supplemental educational services (SES), information on characteristics of SES that, based on rigorous research, are more likely to foster improvement in student academi...
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Signed into law 06/2013 | Special Populations--Foster Care |
P-12 | Enrollment and Transfer of Students in the Conservatorship of the State
S.B. 832
Extends to open-enrollment charter schools the requirement that each district appoint at least one employee to act as a school liaison to assist children in the conservatorship of the state with school enrollments and transfers. Requires districts and charter ...
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Signed into law 06/2013 | Teaching Quality--Preparation |
P-12 | Texas Teacher Residency Program
H.B. 1752
By March 1, 2014, directs the commissioner of higher education to use a competitive selection process to establish a Texas Teacher Residency Program at a public institution of higher education. Requires that the institution of higher education form a partnersh...
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Signed into law 06/2013 | Teaching Quality--Preparation |
P-12 | Educator Preparation Programs
H.B. 2012 - Educator Preparation Programs
Requires that each educator preparation program provide information on:
(1) The skills educators are required to possess, the responsibilities educators are required to accept, and the high expectations for Texas students
(2) The effect of supply and demand fo...
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Signed into law 06/2013 | Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
P-12 | Professional Development Requirements Audit
H.B. 2012 - Professional Development Requirements Audit
Directs the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to periodically conduct an audit of the professional development requirements applicable to educators, including state, federal, and district-imposed requirements. Directs the agency, based on audit results, to seek to ...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | Accountability |
P-12 | Special Accreditation Investigations
H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part II
Adds to circumstances under which special accreditation investigations must be conducted. Directs the commissioner to authorize special accreditation investigations to be conducted when:
(1) A significant pattern of decreased academic performance has develope...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | Adult Basic Education |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Increasing Workforce in High-Demand and "Green" Occupations
H.B. 1935 and H.B. 3, Section 64
Establishes the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grant program and fund to award grants to public junior colleges and public technical institutes, and to eligible nonprofit organizations to:
(1) Develop or support nonprofit organizations' programs that pre...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | Assessment |
P-12 | Student Assessment Data Portal
H.B. 3 - Section 48 and 49
Deletes provision that education Internet portal provides secure access to student assessment data. Amends 32.258 to direct the state education agency to create a student assessment data portal for use by school districts, teachers, parents, students and publi...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. | Charter Schools Run by Two-Years
H.B. 1423
Allows public junior colleges (two-year institutions) to be granted charters to operate open-enrollment charter schools, including on the junior college campus. Specifies criteria junior college must meet to be granted a charter, including that the charter's e...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | Finance--Resource Efficiency |
P-12 | Financial Accountability
H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part III
Former law called for the creation of a single financial accountability rating system. New enactment directs the commissioner, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop separate financial accountability rating systems for districts and charter schools t...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | High School--College Readiness |
P-12 | Diplomas for Students Demonstrating Early Readiness for College
H.B. 3 - Section 32
Requires any research university that chooses to participate in the pilot program to:
(1) Post on its Web site the benchmarks students must meet (1) in subject areas for which the higher education coordinating board has adopted college readiness standards, (2)...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
P-12 | Council on Children and Families
S.B. 1646
Creates the Council on Children and Families to coordinate the state's health, education and human services systems to ensure that children and families have access to needed services, and improve efficiency in the provision of services. Establishes council me...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | Middle School |
P-12 | High School Innovation Grant Initiative
H.B. 2263
Extends the high school innovation grant initiative to middle and junior high schools. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02263F.pdf...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Postsec.,
Community College | Information on College Costs and Financial Aid
H.B. 2504 - Section 3 and S.B. 1764
Directs the higher education coordinating board to prescribe uniform standards to ensure that information on the cost of attending Texas public higher education institutions is available in a manner that is readily accessible and easily understandable to prosp...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | Reading/Literacy |
P-12 | Participation in Teacher Reading Academy
H.B. 3 - Section 24
Amends action that triggers a teacher's participation in a teacher reading academy. Former provision required teacher to participate in reading academy if teacher provided instruction in reading, math, science or social studies to students in any grades 6-8 an...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
P-12 | Interagency Farm-to-School Coordination Task Force
S.B. 1027
Establishes an interagency farm-to-school coordination task force to promote a healthy diet for schoolchildren and the business of small to mid-sized local farms and ranches. Directs the task force to develop and implement a plan to facilitate the availability...
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Signed into law 06/2009 | Textbooks and Open Source |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Open-Source Textbooks
H.B. 2488
Defines open-source textbooks as textbooks downloadable from the Internet at no cost to the student. Requires districts and charter schools to annually certify that, for each subject in the required curriculum and all grade levels, the district provides every ...
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Signed into law 06/2007 | Curriculum--Science |
P-12 | Nature Science Curriuclum
H.B. 1700
H.B. 1700 implements nature science curriculum on a statewide level. The Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Center of Texas Tech University, and South Llano River State Park will develop the curriculum jointly. The bill requires that the curricul...
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Signed into law 06/2007 | Health |
P-12 | Coordinated Health Program
H.B. 3618
From bill analysis: Student populations along the Texas-Mexico border suffer from high rates of Type 2 diabetes and are at an increased risk for becoming obese.Creates a bilingual coordinated health program in certain school districts along the border. The bil...
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Signed into law 05/2007 | Attendance |
P-12 | Permitting Attendance of Students to Age 26
H.B. 1137
Permits students who are at least 21 years of age and under 26 years of age on the first day of September of any school year to be eligible for funding under the Foundation School Program for the purposes of completing the requirements for a high school diplom...
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Signed into law 05/2007 | Special Education |
P-12 | Transitional Youth With Disabilities
H.B. 1230
H.B. 1230 requires the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission (executive commissioner) to monitor programs and services to study trends and to promote positive outcomes for transitional youth with disabilities. This bill requires tr...
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Signed into law 05/2006 | Promising Practices |
P-12 | Best Practices Clearinghouse
H.B. 1C (Section 7.009)
In coordination with the Legislative Budget Board, the Texas Education Agency must establish an online clearinghouse of information relating to best practices of campuses and school districts regarding instruction, public school finance, resource allocation, a...
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Signed into law 06/2005 | Postsecondary |
Postsec. | Timely Graduation, Tuition, Academic Issues
H.B. 1172
From bill analysis: Requires the president of each general academic teaching institution to annually provide, no later than November 1 of each year, to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board a report describing the institution's efforts regarding timely...
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Signed into law 06/2005 | Postsecondary |
Postsec. | Incentives for Timely Graduation
S.B. 30
From bill analysis: Requires the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to create a pilot project under which a governing board of an institution participating in the pilot project may enter into a contract with a student to award the student an incentive p...
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Signed into law 06/2005 | Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Community College,
Postsec. | Higher Tuition for Failed Courses
H.B. 994
Allows the governing board of a public junior college district to charge a student a higher rate of tuition than the tuition that would otherwise be charged for a course in which the student enrolls if: (1) the student has previously enrolled in the same cour...
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Signed into law 06/2005 | Special Populations--Corrections Education |
P-12,
Community College | Reducing Recidivism
H.B. 2837
Goal is to ensure that programs such as GED and ESL are integrated with an applied vocational context leading to employment. Improves coordination between partner agencies so ex-offenders receive professional certification and licensing along with educational ...
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Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Postsec.,
Community College | Common Application Forms
S.B. 502
Expands use of common application form to community colleges. From bill analysis: The Common Application Advisory Committee, convened by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (board), has successfully created and launched a common admissions applicatio...
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