By:  Bivins                                            S.B. No. 208
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to reporting the academic performance of public high
 1-3     school graduates in institutions of higher education.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 39.053, Education Code,
 1-6     as amended by Chapters 510 and 1417, Acts of the 76th Legislature,
 1-7     Regular Session, 1999, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
 1-8           (a)  Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report
 1-9     describing the educational performance of the district and of each
1-10     campus in the district that includes uniform student performance
1-11     and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by
1-12     the commissioner.  The annual report must also include:
1-13                 (1)  campus performance objectives established under
1-14     Section 11.253 and the progress of each campus toward those
1-15     objectives, which shall be available to the public;
1-16                 (2)  the performance rating for the district as
1-17     provided under Section 39.072(a) and the performance rating of each
1-18     campus in the district as provided under Section 39.072(c); [and]
1-19                 (3)  the district's current special education
1-20     compliance status with the agency;
1-21                 (4)  [.  In addition, the annual report must include] a
1-22     statement of the number, rate, and type of violent or criminal
1-23     incidents that occurred on each district campus, to the extent
1-24     permitted under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of
1-25     1974 (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g);
 2-1                 (5)  [,] information concerning school violence
 2-2     prevention and violence intervention policies and procedures that
 2-3     the district is using to protect students;
 2-4                 (6)  [, and] the findings that result from evaluations
 2-5     conducted under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act
 2-6     of 1994 (20 U.S.C. Section 7101 et seq.) and its subsequent
 2-7     amendments; and
 2-8                 (7)  information received under Section 51.403(e) for
 2-9     each high school campus in the district, presented in a form
2-10     determined by the commissioner.
2-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.