By Garcia H.B. No. 1291
77R4770 CAS-F
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.