1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 225 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 22, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education; 1-4 March 8, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 8, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 225 By: Bivins 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to reporting the academic performance of public high 1-11 school graduates in institutions of higher education. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 39.053, Education Code, 1-14 is amended to read as follows: 1-15 (a) Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report 1-16 describing the educational performance of the district and of each 1-17 campus in the district that includes uniform student performance 1-18 and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by 1-19 the commissioner. The annual report must include information 1-20 received under Section 51.403(e) for each high school campus in the 1-21 district, presented in a form determined by the commissioner. The 1-22 annual report must also include campus performance objectives 1-23 established under Section 11.253 and the progress of each campus 1-24 toward those objectives, which shall be available to the public. 1-25 The annual report must also include the performance rating for the 1-26 district as provided under Section 39.072(a) and the performance 1-27 rating of each campus in the district as provided under Section 1-28 39.072(c). Supplemental information to be included in the reports 1-29 shall be determined by the board of trustees. Performance 1-30 information in the annual reports on the indicators established 1-31 under Section 39.051 and descriptive information required by this 1-32 section shall be provided by the agency. 1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-39 * * * * *