1-1 By: Hochberg (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 2553
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to performance reviews of school districts by the
1-9 comptroller.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 403.020, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 403.020. PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS [SCHOOL
1-14 DISTRICT BUDGET REVIEW]. (a) The comptroller may periodically
1-15 review the effectiveness and efficiency of the budgets and
1-16 operations of school districts. A review of a school district may
1-17 be initiated by the comptroller or by the request of the school
1-18 district. A review may be initiated by a school district only by
1-19 resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the board of
1-20 trustees of the district.
1-21 (b) If a review is initiated by the school district, the
1-22 district shall pay 25 percent of the cost incurred in conducting
1-23 the review.
1-24 (c) The comptroller shall:
1-25 (1) prepare a report showing the results of each
1-26 review conducted under this section;
1-27 (2) file the report with the school district, the
1-28 governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
1-29 representatives, the chairs of the standing committees of the
1-30 senate and of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over
1-31 public education, and the commissioner of education; and
1-32 (3) make the entire report and a summary of the report
1-33 available to the public on the Internet.
1-34 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-35 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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