By Bivins                                              S.B. No. 100
       74R864 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain reports on the academic performance of students
    1-3  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.  Each high school
   1-17  receiving a report concerning five or more students shall release
   1-18  to a newspaper of general circulation in the area in which the high
   1-19  school is located the number of students covered by the report and
   1-20  the percentage of those students reported as needing a
   1-21  developmental course.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.