By Gallego H.B. No. 3768 76R8008 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to report cards on the performance of public school 1-3 campuses. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 39.052(b) and (c), Education Code, are 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (b) The report card shall include the following information 1-8 where applicable: 1-9 (1) the academic excellence indicators adopted under 1-10 Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8); 1-11 (2) student/classroom teacher ratios and class size by 1-12 grade level, subject, and special program; and 1-13 (3) administrative and instructional costs per 1-14 student. 1-15 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring 1-16 dissemination of appropriate student performance portions of campus 1-17 report cards annually to the parent, guardian, conservator, or 1-18 other person having lawful control of each student at the campus 1-19 and to each member of the campus-level planning and decision-making 1-20 committee established under Subchapter F, Chapter 11. On written 1-21 request, the school district shall provide a copy of a campus 1-22 report card to any other party. 1-23 SECTION 2. Sections 39.052(b) and (c), Education Code, as 1-24 amended by this Act, apply to report cards on the performance of 2-1 public school campuses beginning with report cards issued for the 2-2 1999-2000 school year. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.