H.B. No. 753

	AN ACT
	relating to certain information to be provided by school districts
	to parents concerning supplemental educational services and to
	Texas Education Agency approval and investigation of supplemental
	educational services providers.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding
	Section 26.0082 to read as follows:
	Sec. 26.0082.  SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES.  (a)  In
	this section, "rigorous research" means research that includes:
	(1)  a study design that employs either a randomized
	controlled trial or a quasi-experimental design;
	(2)  an adequate measure of outcomes; and
	(3)  reliable and valid results.
	(b)  As part of the annual notice a school district provides
	to parents under 20 U.S.C. Section 6316(e)(2)(A) concerning
	supplemental educational services, the district shall include
	information provided to the district by the agency that:
	(1)  identifies characteristics of supplemental
	educational services that, based on rigorous research, have been
	demonstrated to be more likely to foster improvement in student
	academic performance, including information concerning the minimum
	number of hours of tutoring necessary for improved performance; and
	(2)  sorts, for each subject for which supplemental
	educational services are provided, supplemental educational
	services providers serving district students according to the
	provider's level of effectiveness in improving student performance
	in the applicable subject area.
	(c)  The agency shall develop and the commissioner by rule
	shall establish a process for approving and revoking approval for a
	supplemental educational services provider.  The process must allow
	the agency to use any publicly available information from any
	published source in determining whether to approve an entity as a
	provider, except that the agency may not use information that is
	self-published or published by a provider for marketing purposes.
	(d)  The agency shall maintain a publicly available list of
	approved providers.  In accordance with standards established by
	commissioner rule, the agency shall promptly investigate a
	complaint against an approved provider and promptly remove from the
	list of approved providers a provider for which agency approval has
	been revoked.
	(e)  Not later than the fifth business day after the date on
	which the agency removes a provider from the list of approved
	providers, the agency shall send notice of the removal to each
	appropriate school district.  The district shall provide notice of
	the removal to parents of appropriate students.
	(f)  A supplemental educational services provider for which
	agency approval has been revoked because the agency determines that
	the provider has engaged in fraudulent activity is permanently
	prohibited from acting as a provider in this state.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 753 was passed by the House on April
	11, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 5, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 753 on May 22, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 127, Nays 14,
	4 present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 753 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 17, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
	0.
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	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
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	Governor