1. (a) The board may periodically review the effectiveness and efficiency of the operations of school districts, including the district's expenditures for its officers' and employees' travel services. A review of a school district may be initiated by the board at its discretion or on the request of the school district. A review may be initiated by a school district only by resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the board of trustees of the district.
2. (b) If a review is initiated on the request of the school district, the district shall pay 25 percent of the cost incurred in conducting the review.

3. (c) The board shall:

   1. (1) prepare a report showing the results of each review conducted under this section;
   2. (2) file the report with the school district, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, the chairs of the standing committees of the senate and the house of representatives with jurisdiction over public education, and the commissioner of education; and
   3. (3) make the entire report and a summary of the report available to the public on the Internet.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., 3rd C.S., ch. 3, Sec. 6.09, eff. Jan. 11, 2004.