By: Duncan S.B. No. 1627 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the provision of certain comparison data for public 1-2 school districts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 42.006, Education Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-6 (d) The agency shall make available to school districts 1-7 through the Internet information on the students, student 1-8 performance, staffing, and financing of Texas public school 1-9 districts, using data from the Public Education Information 1-10 Management System. The agency shall provide the information by 1-11 county and region to enable a district to compare its results to 1-12 those of neighboring districts, its region, and statewide averages. 1-13 SECTION 2. The State Auditor's Office shall discontinue its 1-14 production of the annual Savings Profile System for Texas School 1-15 Districts reports. 1-16 SECTION 3. (a) As soon as practicable, the Texas Education 1-17 Agency shall make available through the Internet the information 1-18 required by Subsection (d), Section 42.006, Education Code, as 1-19 added by this Act. 1-20 (b) On request by a school district, the Texas Education 1-21 Agency shall provide a report containing data comparable to that 1-22 provided by the State Auditor's Office in its Savings Profile 1-23 System for Texas School Districts reports until the information 2-1 required by Subsection (d), Section 42.006, Education Code, as 2-2 added by this Act, becomes available on the Internet. 2-3 (c) By September 1, 1997, the Texas Education Agency shall 2-4 notify each school district of the availability of the reports 2-5 provided in Subsection (b) and inform each district of when the 2-6 school district data provided in the reports will become available 2-7 on the Internet. 2-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.