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.