1-1  By:  Bivins                                            S.B. No. 100
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed November 29, 1994; January 11, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
    1-4  February 1, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;
    1-6  February 1, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 100                   By:  Bivins
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to certain reports on the academic performance of students
   1-11  at institutions of higher education.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 51.403, Education Code,
   1-14  is amended to read as follows:
   1-15        (e)  Under guidelines established by the coordinating board
   1-16  <Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System,> and the
   1-17  State Board of Education, <postsecondary> institutions of higher
   1-18  education shall report student performance during the first year
   1-19  enrolled after graduation from high school to the high school <or
   1-20  junior college> last attended.  This report shall include, but not
   1-21  be limited to, appropriate student test scores, a description of
   1-22  developmental courses required, and the student's grade point
   1-23  average.  Appropriate safeguards for student privacy shall be
   1-24  included in the rules for implementation of this subsection.  Each
   1-25  high school receiving reports concerning five or more students
   1-26  shall release within 30 days to a newspaper of general circulation
   1-27  in the area in which the high school is located the number of
   1-28  students covered by the reports and the percentage of those
   1-29  students reported as needing a developmental course pursuant to the
   1-30  minimum standards adopted by the coordinating board under Section
   1-31  51.306(e) of this code.
   1-32        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-33        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-34  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-35  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-36  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-37  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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