81R25962 JRJ-D
By: Castro H.B. No. 3296
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3296:
By: Castro C.S.H.B. No. 3296
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to alternative developmental education courses under the
Texas Success Initiative for institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.3062(i), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(i) The institution of higher education may refer a student
to developmental coursework as considered necessary by the
institution to address a student's deficiencies in the student's
readiness to perform freshman-level academic coursework, except
that the institution may not require enrollment in developmental
coursework with respect to a student previously determined by any
institution of higher education to have met college-readiness
standards. An institution of higher education that requires a
student to enroll in developmental coursework must offer the
student the option of enrolling in developmental coursework in an
intensive or compressed course-based format that, to the extent
possible, allows the student to enroll in developmental courses
without substantially conflicting with other coursework or the
student's overall academic progress if under rules of the Texas
Higher Education Coordinating Board the student is determined to be
eligible to enroll in developmental courses offered in that format.
The coordinating board shall adopt rules prescribing:
(1) student eligibility criteria for enrolling in an
intensive or compressed course-based format under this subsection;
and
(2) requirements for approving the use of an intensive
or compressed course-based format.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.