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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