By Hochberg H.B. No. 2553
76R10060 CAS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to performance reviews of school districts by the
1-3 comptroller.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 403.020, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 403.020. PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS [SCHOOL
1-8 DISTRICT BUDGET REVIEW]. (a) The comptroller may periodically
1-9 review the effectiveness and efficiency of the budgets and
1-10 operations of school districts. A review of a school district may
1-11 be initiated by the comptroller or by the request of the school
1-12 district. A review may be initiated by a school district only by
1-13 resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the board of
1-14 trustees of the district.
1-15 (b) If a review is initiated by the school district, the
1-16 district shall pay 25 percent of the cost incurred in conducting
1-17 the review.
1-18 (c) The comptroller shall:
1-19 (1) prepare a report showing the results of each
1-20 review conducted under this section;
1-21 (2) file the report with the school district, the
1-22 governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
1-23 representatives, the chairs of the standing committees of the
1-24 senate and of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over
2-1 public education, and the commissioner of education; and
2-2 (3) make the entire report and a summary of the report
2-3 available to the public on the Internet.
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
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.