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.