By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1383
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to certain reports on the academic performance of students
    1-2  at institutions of higher education.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 51.403, Education Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (e)  Under guidelines established by the coordinating board
    1-7  <Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System,> and the
    1-8  State Board of Education, postsecondary institutions shall report
    1-9  student performance during the first year enrolled after graduation
   1-10  from high school to the high school or junior college last
   1-11  attended.  This report shall include, but not be limited to,
   1-12  appropriate student test scores, a description of developmental
   1-13  courses required, and the student's grade point average.
   1-14  Appropriate safeguards for student privacy shall be included in the
   1-15  rules for implementation of this subsection.  Each high school
   1-16  receiving a report concerning five or more students from a single
   1-17  postsecondary institution shall release to a newspaper of general
   1-18  circulation in the area in which the high school is located the
   1-19  number of students covered by the report and the percentage of
   1-20  those students reported as needing a developmental course.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.