By:  Bivins                                            S.B. No. 225
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to reporting the academic performance of public high
 1-2     school graduates in institutions of higher education.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 39.053, Education Code,
 1-5     is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report
 1-7     describing the educational performance of the district and of each
 1-8     campus in the district that includes uniform student performance
 1-9     and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by
1-10     the commissioner.  The annual report must include information
1-11     received under Section 51.403(e) for each high school campus in the
1-12     district, presented in a form determined by the commissioner.  The
1-13     annual report must also include campus performance objectives
1-14     established under Section 11.253 and the progress of each campus
1-15     toward those objectives, which shall be available to the public.
1-16     The annual report must also include the performance rating for the
1-17     district as provided under Section 39.072(a) and the performance
1-18     rating of each campus in the district as provided under Section
1-19     39.072(c).  Supplemental information to be included in the reports
1-20     shall be determined by the board of trustees.  Performance
1-21     information in the annual reports on the indicators established
1-22     under Section 39.051 and descriptive information required by this
1-23     section shall be provided by the agency.
1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-1           SECTION 3.   The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.