By Bivins S.B. No. 225
76R957 KKA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to measuring and reporting the academic performance of
1-3 public high school graduates in institutions of higher education.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 39.053(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report
1-8 describing the educational performance of the district and of each
1-9 campus in the district that includes uniform student performance
1-10 and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by
1-11 the commissioner. The annual report must include information
1-12 received under Section 51.946 for each high school campus in the
1-13 district, presented in a form determined by the commissioner. The
1-14 annual report must also include campus performance objectives
1-15 established under Section 11.253 and the progress of each campus
1-16 toward those objectives, which shall be available to the public.
1-17 The annual report must also include the performance rating for the
1-18 district as provided under Section 39.072(a) and the performance
1-19 rating of each campus in the district as provided under Section
1-20 39.072(c). Supplemental information to be included in the reports
1-21 shall be determined by the board of trustees. Performance
1-22 information in the annual reports on the indicators established
1-23 under Section 39.051 and descriptive information required by this
1-24 section shall be provided by the agency.
2-1 SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
2-2 amended by adding Section 51.946 to read as follows:
2-3 Sec. 51.946. INFORMATION RELATING TO CERTAIN GRADUATES.
2-4 (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by rule shall
2-5 require an institution of higher education to collect information
2-6 relating to the academic performance of each student who enrolls in
2-7 the institution not later than the second anniversary of the date
2-8 of the student's graduation from a public high school in this
2-9 state. The information must include:
2-10 (1) the student's score on the test instrument
2-11 required under Section 51.306, if applicable, or other appropriate
2-12 skills assessment instrument;
2-13 (2) the number of college-level semester credit hours
2-14 earned by the student;
2-15 (3) the student's educational status on the sixth
2-16 anniversary of the student's graduation from high school,
2-17 determined according to whether the student:
2-18 (A) has received a degree from the institution
2-19 by that date;
2-20 (B) continues to be enrolled in the institution
2-21 on that date; or
2-22 (C) has withdrawn from the institution before
2-23 that date without receiving a degree; and
2-24 (4) any other information specified by the board as
2-25 useful in measuring the effectiveness of public high schools in
2-26 this state in preparing students for higher education.
2-27 (b) An institution of higher education shall, in a form
3-1 prescribed by the board, report annually to each appropriate public
3-2 high school in this state the information required by Subsection
3-3 (a) that relates to students enrolled in the institution who
3-4 graduated from that high school. The information must be reported
3-5 in a manner that does not permit identification of an individual
3-6 student.
3-7 SECTION 3. Section 51.403(e), Education Code, is repealed.
3-8 SECTION 4. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
3-9 section, this Act takes effect immediately.
3-10 (b) Section 3 of this Act takes effect September 1, 2000.
3-11 (c) Not later than April 30, 2000, the Texas Higher
3-12 Education Coordinating Board shall adopt rules implementing Section
3-13 51.946, Education Code, as added by this Act. The rules must
3-14 require an institution of higher education to collect the specified
3-15 information beginning with students who enroll in the institution
3-16 as freshmen for the first time during the 2000-2001 academic year.
3-17 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
3-23 terms, and it is so enacted.