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.