The Senate Education Committee will meet Thursday, March 30 at 9 a.m. to consider seven bills. Summaries below from TASB.

The Senate Education Committee will meet Thursday, March 30 at 9 a.m.
 to consider seven bills. Watch the livestream.

SB 160 (Rodriguez) would prohibit TEA from adopting or implementing an accountability or other performance indicator based on the enrollment of students receiving special education. 

SB 276 (Watson) would remove the limitation on the number of students that a single nonprofit entity granted a charter to provide adult education may serve. It is a companion to HB 852 (Parker) mentioned above.

SB 489 (Lucio) would add prevention of the use of e-cigarettes to the list of topics to be considered by the local school health advisory council. 

SB 610 (Huffines) would expand the state virtual school network to cover kindergarten and elementary grades instead of just middle and high schools. 

SB 671 (Campbell) would direct the SBOE to adopt criteria to allow a student to comply with one credit of high school curriculum requirements by successfully completing a dual language immersion program in elementary school. 

SB 1317 (Uresti) would prohibit a district from requiring a teacher to report for service at the beginning of a school year earlier than the seventh business day before the first day of instruction. A district would also have to notify each district teacher of any meetings or training that the teacher would be required to attend that is scheduled to occur on noninstructional days in the following school year before the last day that a teacher may resign.

SB 1634 (Taylor, L.) would allow a district to reduce the number of service days required of teachers if the district anticipates providing less than 180 days of instruction in a school year.