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.