HBA-MPM H.B. 387 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 387 By: Garcia Public Education 4/20/1999 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, campus report cards do not include comprehensive information regarding the academic performance of students at each grade level or the number of students who drop out of school at the high school level. H.B. 387 requires the portions of campus report cards disseminated to the parent or person with lawful control over a student to include information about the performance of the students at each campus grade level on certain academic excellence indicators and also requires the number and percentage of students at each campus grade level who have dropped out during the school year to be included on report cards relating to the high school campus. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that the rulemaking authority previously delegated to the commissioner of education is modified in SECTION 1 (Section 39.052(c)) of this bill and is expressly delegated in SECTION 2 of this bill. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 39.052(c), Education Code, to delete "guardian" and "conservator" from a list of persons to whom the Texas Education Agency is required to send student performance portions of campus report cards, so that the list will read simply "parent or other person having lawful control of each student." Requires the portions of campus report cards disseminated to the parent or person with lawful control over a student to include information about the performance of the students at each campus grade level on the academic excellence indicators specified under Sections 39.051(b)(1)-(8)(Academic Excellence Indicators). Requires the number and percentage of students at each campus grade level who have dropped out during the school year to be included on report cards relating to the high school campus. SECTION 2. Requires the commissioner of education to adopt rules in accordance with this section no later than January 1, 2000. Specifies that the rules apply to public school campus report cards for the 2000-2001 school year and thereafter. SECTION 3. Emergency clause. Effective date: upon passage.