By: Hochberg H.B. No. 1693
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the adoption of standards for school financial
accounting software.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter I. Financial Accountability,
Education Code, is amended by adding a section 39.205 to read as
follows:
Section 39.205. SCHOOL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE
STANDARDS. The commissioner, in consultation with the Department
of Information Resources shall adopt standards for the performance
and interoperability of school financial and attendance accounting
software. Standards shall assure that the software will provide
school districts with the ability to share and report data in a
timely manner for the purposes of financial management, operational
decision making and public transparency. The Department of
Information Resources shall, through its contracting processes,
award contracts that require the vendors to certify that software
products have met standards adopted under this section. The
Department of Information Resources shall include the standards
adopted under this section as a requirement in the solicitations
for school financial and attendance accounting software and may
negotiate state contract pricing for such products that meet the
standards.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.