By: Hochberg H.B. No. 1693
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to adoption of standards for school district financial
accounting and attendance reporting software.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.205 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.205. SOFTWARE STANDARDS. (a) The Department of
Information Resources, in cooperation with the commissioner, shall
adopt performance and interoperability standards for software used
by school districts for financial accounting or attendance
reporting.
(b) Standards adopted under this section must ensure that
the software will enable a school district to share and report
information in a timely manner for purposes of financial
management, operational decision-making, and transparency of
district operations to the public.
(c) The Department of Information Resources:
(1) shall include compliance with standards adopted
under this section as a requirement in any solicitation for
software anticipated to be used for a purpose described by
Subsection (a);
(2) shall require a vendor awarded a contract in
response to a solicitation described by Subdivision (1) to certify
that the software complies with the standards adopted under this
section; and
(3) may negotiate state contract pricing for software
that complies with the standards adopted under this section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.