By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1383
       73R8871 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to publication of certain reports on the academic
    1-3  performance of students at institutions of higher education.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 51.403(e), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  Under guidelines established by the coordinating board
    1-8  <Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System,> and the
    1-9  State Board of Education, postsecondary institutions shall report
   1-10  student performance during the first year enrolled after graduation
   1-11  from high school to the high school or junior college last
   1-12  attended.  This report shall include, but not be limited to,
   1-13  appropriate student test scores, a description of developmental
   1-14  courses required, and the student's grade point average.
   1-15  Appropriate safeguards for student privacy shall be included in the
   1-16  rules for implementation of this subsection.  If a high school or
   1-17  junior college receives a report concerning five or more students,
   1-18  the high school or junior college shall publish a compilation of
   1-19  the reports in a newspaper of general circulation in the area in
   1-20  which the high school or junior college is located but shall delete
   1-21  any information concerning results of a test administered as
   1-22  provided by Section 51.306 of this code and shall modify the
   1-23  information published  to the extent necessary to ensure that the
   1-24  information does not indicate how a specific student performed.
    2-1  The information shall be published in a space at least as large as
    2-2  one-quarter of a standard-size or tabloid-size newspaper page.  The
    2-3  information may not be published in the part of the newspaper in
    2-4  which legal notices or classified advertisements appear.
    2-5        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.