By Hochberg H.B. No. 2553
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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 a majority of
1-12 the members of the board of trustees of the district.
1-13 (b) If a performance review is initiated at the request of a
1-14 majority of the members of the board of trustees of a school
1-15 district, that school district reviewed under this section shall
1-16 pay 25 percent of the cost incurred in conducting the review.
1-17 (c) The comptroller shall:
1-18 (1) prepare a report showing the results of each
1-19 review conducted under this section;
1-20 (2) file the report with the school district, the
1-21 governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
2-1 representatives, the chairs of the standing committees of the
2-2 senate and of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over
2-3 public education, and the commissioner of education; and
2-4 (3) make both the entire report and a summary thereof
2-5 publicly available on the internet.
2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.