By Garcia H.B. No. 1251
76R4429 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to information concerning students who drop out of public
1-3 school.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 39.052(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
1-8 dissemination of appropriate student performance portions of campus
1-9 report cards annually to the parent[, guardian, conservator,] or
1-10 other person having lawful control of each student at the campus.
1-11 In the case of a report card relating to a high school campus, the
1-12 portions of campus report cards disseminated to the parent or other
1-13 person having lawful control of a student must include information
1-14 concerning the number and percentage of students who, for the most
1-15 recent three-year or four-year period, depending on the grade
1-16 levels offered at the campus, started high school at the campus and
1-17 dropped out of school before graduating. The parent or other
1-18 person having lawful control of a former campus student who has
1-19 dropped out of school shall also be provided the information
1-20 required by this subsection as soon as practicable after the
1-21 student drops out of school. On written request, the school
1-22 district shall provide a copy of a campus report card to any other
1-23 party.
1-24 SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2000, the commissioner
2-1 of education shall adopt rules in accordance with Section
2-2 39.052(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act. Those rules
2-3 apply to public school campus report cards for the 2000-2001 school
2-4 year and thereafter.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.