78S20033 KEG-F

By:  Swinford                                                     H.B. No. 10 



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to performance reviews of school districts.                          
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by 
adding Section 321.024 to read as follows:
	Sec. 321.024.  PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.  (a)  
The committee may periodically review the effectiveness and 
efficiency of the operations of school districts. A review of a 
school district may be initiated by the committee at its discretion 
or on the request of the school district. A review may be initiated 
by a school district only by resolution adopted by a majority of the 
members of the board of trustees of the district.
	(b)  If a review is initiated on the request of the school 
district, the district shall pay 25 percent of the cost incurred in 
conducting the review.
	(c)  The committee shall:                                               
		(1)  prepare a report showing the results of each 
review conducted under this section;
		(2)  file the report with the school district, the 
governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of 
representatives, the chairs of the standing committees of the 
senate and the house of representatives with jurisdiction over 
public education, and the commissioner of education; and
		(3)  make the entire report and a summary of the report 
available to the public on the Internet.
	SECTION 2.  Section 403.020, Government Code, is repealed.                     
	SECTION 3.  On December 1, 2003:                                               
		(1)  all records and other property of the comptroller 
that relate to a performance review of school districts are 
transferred to the Legislative Audit Committee;
		(2)  all unexpended and unobligated appropriations to 
the comptroller relating to the comptroller's performance review of 
school districts are transferred to the Legislative Audit 
Committee;
		(3)  all employees of the comptroller whose primary 
functions relate to the performance review of school districts 
become employees of the Legislative Audit Committee; and
		(4)  any reference in law to the comptroller that 
relates to the performance review of school districts means the 
Legislative Audit Committee.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect December 1, 2003.