By: Van de Putte S.B. No. 1549
(In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2009; March 17, 2009, read
first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 2, 2009,
reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
April 2, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the calculation by a school district of a high school
student's grade point average.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 28.0252, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(b) If the commissioner develops a standard method under
this section, a school district shall use the standard method to
compute a student's high school grade point average[, except that
to the extent of a conflict between that method and the method
adopted under Section 51.807, the student's grade point average
computed in accordance with the method established under Section
51.807 shall be used in determining the student's eligibility for
university admission under Subchapter U, Chapter 51].
SECTION 2. Section 51.807, Education Code, as amended by
Chapters 941 (H.B. 3826) and 1369 (H.B. 3851), Acts of the 80th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is reenacted to read as
follows:
Sec. 51.807. RULEMAKING. (a) The Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board may adopt rules relating to the operation of
admissions programs under this subchapter, including rules
relating to the identification of eligible students.
(b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, after
consulting with the Texas Education Agency, by rule shall establish
standards for determining for purposes of this subchapter:
(1) whether a private high school is accredited by a
generally recognized accrediting organization; and
(2) whether a person completed a high school
curriculum that is equivalent in content and rigor to the
curriculum requirements established under Section 28.025 for the
recommended or advanced high school program.
SECTION 3. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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