HBA-MPM H.B. 1442 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1442
By: Hawley
Public Education
4/2/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Current law prohibits a student from receiving a high school diploma unless
the student has passed a secondary exit-level assessment test (TASS).
Students of military families are often transferred to and from numerous
schools during the course of their education, and may sometimes be
transferred from state to state.  A student such as this may be challenged
by multiple exit-level testing requirements.  Reciprocity for exit-level
examinations may help students of military families graduate in a timely
manner.  House Bill 1442 exempts children of military families from TASS
testing requirements if the child has satisfactorily passed a similar
exit-level test required for graduation in another state. 

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. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 1442 amends the Education Code to exempt from the secondary
exit-level assessment instrument a child who moves to Texas because the
student's parent, guardian, or person with legal control of the student
serves in the armed forces and is assigned to duty in Texas and who would
be entitled to pay resident tuition fees at a public institution of higher
education if the student performed at a satisfactory level on an exit
instrument that is required for high school graduation in the student's
previous state of residence. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2001. The Act applies beginning with the
2001-2002 school year.