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.
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