By Bivins                                        S.B. No. 152

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                                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 of higher

1-10     education shall report student performance during the first year

1-11     enrolled after graduation from high school to the high school [or

1-12     junior college] last attended.  This report shall include, but not

1-13     be limited to, appropriate student test scores, a description of

1-14     developmental courses required, and the student's grade point

1-15     average.  Appropriate safeguards for student privacy shall be

1-16     included in the rules for implementation of this subsection.  Each

1-17     high school receiving a report concerning five or more students

1-18     shall release to a newspaper of general circulation in the area in

1-19     which the high school is located the number of students covered by

1-20     the report and the percentage of those students reported as needing

1-21     a developmental course according to the minimum standards adopted

1-22     by the coordinating board under Section 51.306(e).  The high school

1-23     shall release the information not later than the 30th day after the

1-24     date on which the high school receives the report.

 2-1           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-2           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-4     emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the

 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.