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2-3 information may not be published in the part of the newspaper in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.