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.