By: Bivins S.B. No. 100
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 of higher
1-9 education shall report student performance during the first year
1-10 enrolled after graduation from high school to the high school <or
1-11 junior college> last attended. This report shall include, but not
1-12 be limited to, appropriate student test scores, a description of
1-13 developmental courses required, and the student's grade point
1-14 average. Appropriate safeguards for student privacy shall be
1-15 included in the rules for implementation of this subsection. Each
1-16 high school receiving reports concerning five or more students
1-17 shall release within 30 days to a newspaper of general circulation
1-18 in the area in which the high school is located the number of
1-19 students covered by the reports and the percentage of those
1-20 students reported as needing a developmental course pursuant to the
1-21 minimum standards adopted by the coordinating board under Section
1-22 51.306(e) of this code.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.