1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 1627 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 10, 1997, 1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; 1-5 April 10, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the provision of certain comparison data for public 1-9 school districts. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 42.006, Education Code, is amended by 1-12 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-13 (d) The agency shall make available to school districts 1-14 through the Internet information on the students, student 1-15 performance, staffing, and financing of Texas public school 1-16 districts, using data from the Public Education Information 1-17 Management System. The agency shall provide the information by 1-18 county and region to enable a district to compare its results to 1-19 those of neighboring districts, its region, and statewide averages. 1-20 SECTION 2. The State Auditor's Office shall discontinue its 1-21 production of the annual Savings Profile System for Texas School 1-22 Districts reports. 1-23 SECTION 3. (a) As soon as practicable, the Texas Education 1-24 Agency shall make available through the Internet the information 1-25 required by Subsection (d), Section 42.006, Education Code, as 1-26 added by this Act. 1-27 (b) On request by a school district, the Texas Education 1-28 Agency shall provide a report containing data comparable to that 1-29 provided by the State Auditor's Office in its Savings Profile 1-30 System for Texas School Districts reports until the information 1-31 required by Subsection (d), Section 42.006, Education Code, as 1-32 added by this Act, becomes available on the Internet. 1-33 (c) By September 1, 1997, the Texas Education Agency shall 1-34 notify each school district of the availability of the reports 1-35 provided in Subsection (b) and inform each district of when the 1-36 school district data provided in the reports will become available 1-37 on the Internet. 1-38 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-43 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-44 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-45 * * * * *