HBA-MPM H.B. 75 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 75 By: Garcia Public Education 4/2/2001 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Texas Education Agency prepares and distributes campus report cards to each district. The districts are required to distribute the class size and student performance portions of the report card to the parent of each student at the campus. Currently, campus report cards do not include information such as the percentage of students whose parent had personal contact with a teacher or responded to communication from school personnel or the percentage of students who transfer, have excessive unexcused absences, and are accepted by an institution of higher education after graduation. House Bill 75 requires this information to be included in campus report cards and distributed to the parents. 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 SECTIONS 1 and 2 (39.052, Education Code) of this bill. ANALYSIS House Bill 75 amends the Education Code to expand the information the Texas Education Agency is required to include on campus report cards distributed annually to each school district. The bill requires the report card to include, where applicable, among other information: _the percentage of students whose parent had personal contact with the student's teacher during the school year concerning the student's education; _the percentage of students whose parent responded to written or oral communication from school personnel for which a response was requested; _the percentage of students transferring to and from the campus; _the percentage of students having an unexcused voluntary absence on 10 or more days or parts of days within a six-month period or three or more days or parts of days within a four-week period from school without parental consent; and _the percentage of students graduating and the percentage of graduating students accepted by a junior college or senior college or university. The bill requires the commissioner of education to adopt rules requiring the above information as well as student attendance and drop-out rates to be included in the portion of the campus report cards distributed annually to the parent of each student at the campus. EFFECTIVE DATE 4/2/2001