By Garcia                                             H.B. No. 2132
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to information from public school campus report cards
 1-3     disseminated to the parents or other persons having lawful control
 1-4     of students.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 39.052(c), Education Code, is amended to
 1-7     read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
 1-9     dissemination of appropriate student performance portions of campus
1-10     report cards annually to the parent[, guardian, conservator,] or
1-11     other person having lawful control of each student at the campus.
1-12     The portions of campus report cards disseminated to the parent or
1-13     other person having lawful control of a student must include
1-14     information concerning the performance of the students at each
1-15     campus grade level on the academic excellence indicators specified
1-16     under Sections 39.051(b)(1)-(8) and, in the case of a report card
1-17     relating to a high school campus, the number and percentage of
1-18     students who, for the most recent three-year or four-year period,
1-19     depending on the grade levels offered, started high school at the
1-20     campus and dropped out of school before graduating. On written
1-21     request, the school district shall provide a copy of a campus
1-22     report card to any other party.
1-23           SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 2000, the commissioner
1-24     of education shall adopt rules in accordance with Section
 2-1     39.052(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act.  Those rules
 2-2     apply to public school campus report cards for the 2000-2001 school
 2-3     year and thereafter.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.