HBA-LCA H.B. 2132 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 2132
By: Garcia
Public Education
4/21/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

H.B. 2132 provides that portions of campus report cards disseminated to the
parent or other person having lawful control over a student must include
information concerning the student's performance. This bill also provides
that portions of a report card relating to a high-school campus include
information on students who started high school at the campus and dropped
out of school before graduating. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that rulemaking
authority is expressly delegated to the commissioner of education in
SECTION 2 and that rulemaking previously delegated to the commissioner of
education is modified in SECTION 1 (Section 39.052, Education Code) of this
bill. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 39.052(c), Education Code, to delete guardian
and conservator, thus leaving the parent and a person having lawful control
of each student at the campus, as persons for whom the commissioner of
education (commissioner) is required to adopt rules requiring dissemination
of appropriate student performance portions of campus report cards
annually. Provides that portions of campus report cards disseminated to the
parent or other person having lawful control over a student must include
information concerning the student's performance under Sections 39.051 (b)
(1)-(8) (Academic Excellence Indicators).  Provides that portions of a
report card relating to a high-school campus include information on
students who started high school at the campus and dropped out of school
before graduating in the most recent three-year or four-year period. 

SECTION 2.  Requires the commissioner to adopt rules in accordance with
Section 39.052(c), Education Code, in accordance with this Act.  Provides
that those rules apply with the beginning of the 2000-2001 school year. 

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.