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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