By Garcia                                             H.B. No. 1406
         77R2596 CAS-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to information concerning students who drop out of public
 1-3     school.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Section 39.052(c), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
 1-8     dissemination of appropriate class size and student performance
 1-9     portions of campus report cards annually to the parent[, guardian,
1-10     conservator,] or other person having lawful control of each student
1-11     at the campus.  In the case of a report card relating to a high
1-12     school campus, the portions of campus report cards disseminated to
1-13     the parent or other person having lawful control of a student must
1-14     include information concerning the number and percentage of
1-15     students who, for the most recent three-year or four-year period,
1-16     depending on the grade levels offered at the campus, started high
1-17     school at the campus and dropped out of school before graduating.
1-18     The parent or other person having lawful control of a former campus
1-19     student who has dropped out of school shall also be provided the
1-20     information required by this subsection as soon as practicable
1-21     after the student drops out of school.  On written request, the
1-22     school district shall provide a copy of a campus report card to any
1-23     other party.
1-24           SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2002, the commissioner
 2-1     of education shall adopt rules in accordance with Section
 2-2     39.052(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act.  Those rules
 2-3     apply to public school campus report cards for the 2002-2003 school
 2-4     year and thereafter.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
 2-6     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
 2-7     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
 2-8     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
 2-9     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.