HBA-MPM H.B. 1291 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1291 By: Garcia Public Education 4/2/2001 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Current law requires the appropriate class size and student performance portions of campus report cards to be disseminated to parents, but does not require dissemination of information regarding the percentage of students who did not graduate from high school in four years. Providing such information to a parent may help the parent determine if there are attrition problems in the child's school. House Bill 1291 requires this information to be boldly and conspicuously printed in the campus report card distributed to each parent. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that rulemaking authority is expressly delegated to the commissioner of education in SECTION 1 (Section 39.052, Education Code) and SECTION 2 of this bill. ANALYSIS House Bill 1291 amends the Education Code to include additional information in the portions of a campus report card that is disseminated to the parent or person having lawful control of a student (parent) at a high school campus. The bill specifies that the report card include the number and percentages of students who did not complete the ninth through twelth grades in four years displayed in conspicuous print and boldface type. The bill provides that the parent of a former campus student who has dropped out of school also be provided the information as soon as practicable after the student drops out. The bill requires the commissioner of education to adopt rules regarding these provisions no later than January 1, 2002. The bill provides that the rules are applicable to public school campus report cards beginning with the 2002-2003 school year. EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act takes effect September 1, 2001.