By Garcia H.B. No. 2132
76R4623 CAS-D
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.