By Garcia                                             H.B. No. 1291
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to information in public school campus report cards
 1-3     concerning students who do not graduate from high school in four
 1-4     years.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1. Section 39.052(c), Education Code, is amended to
 1-7     read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
 1-9     dissemination of appropriate class size and student performance
1-10     portions of campus report cards annually to the parent[, guardian,
1-11     conservator,] or other person having lawful control of each student
1-12     at the campus.  In the case of a report card relating to a high
1-13     school campus, the portions of campus report cards disseminated to
1-14     the parent or other person having lawful control of a student must
1-15     include information displayed conspicuously and printed in
1-16     boldfaced type concerning the number and percentage of students who
1-17     did not complete the 12th grade during the fourth school year after
1-18     the school year in which the student entered the 9th grade.  The
1-19     parent or other person having lawful control of a former campus
1-20     student who has dropped out of school shall also be provided the
1-21     information required by this subsection as soon as practicable
1-22     after the student drops out of school.  On written request, the
1-23     school district shall provide a copy of a campus report card to any
1-24     other party.
 2-1           SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2002, the commissioner
 2-2     of education shall adopt rules in accordance with Section
 2-3     39.052(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act.  Those rules
 2-4     apply to public school campus report cards for the 2002-2003 school
 2-5     year and thereafter.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
 2-7     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
 2-8     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
 2-9     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-10     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.