HBA-CCH H.B. 809 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 809 By: McReynolds Public Education 3/5/2001 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Current law allows school districts to use non-instructional days for planning and preparation or staff development. The legislature provides site-based decision-making committees (committees) with the authority to approve the content of staff development instruction, but does not provide them with the authority to decide the number of non-instructional days dedicated to staff development. The committees are closely connected to their faculty members, and therefore have an understanding of whether noninstructional days should be used for planning and preparation or staff development. Providing the committees with the authority to decide the number of days to devote to staff development enables schools to develop comprehensive, high-quality instruction for staff development. House Bill 809 provides that each school district's site-based committee must approve the use of educators' non-instructional days. 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 809 amends the Education Code to provide that each school district's campus-level planning and decision-making committee must approve the use of educators' days of service for which instruction is not required. 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.