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.