HBA-JRA, MPM H.B. 2553 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 2553 By: Hochberg Public Education 7/22/1999 Enrolled BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The comptroller of public accounts (comptroller) has performed 30 performance reviews of Texas school districts since 1991. These reviews provide the districts money-saving suggestions in order to direct more money to the classroom. An interim study by the House Committee on Public Education found the reviews to be one way to improve district efficiency. H.B. 2553 authorizes a district, by resolution adopted by the majority of members of the board of trustees, to request a review of that district and authorizes the comptroller to require a district to pay 25 percent of the cost of the review. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 403.020, Government Code, as follows: Sec. 403.020. New title: PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. (a) Authorizes a review of a school district (district) to be initiated by the comptroller of public accounts (comptroller) or at the district's request. Authorizes a review to be initiated by a district only by resolution adopted by the majority of members of the board of trustees of the district. (b) Requires a district reviewed under this section to pay 25 percent of the cost incurred in conducting a performance review, if one is initiated at the request of the district. (c) Requires the comptroller to prepare a report showing the results of each review conducted under this section; make both the entire report and a summary of it publicly available on the Internet; and file it with the following entities and persons: _the district, _the governor, _the lieutenant governor, _the speaker of the house of representatives, _the chairs of the standing committees of the senate and house of representatives with jurisdiction over public education, and _the commissioner of education. SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1999. SECTION 3. Emergency clause.