Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1776 Compare Versions

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1		-	By: Menéndez S.B. No. 1776
2		-	(Guillen)
	1	+	S.B. No. 1776
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5		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	4		AN ACT
7	5		relating to the exemption from the assessment requirements of the
8	6		Texas Success Initiative for students who successfully complete
9	7		certain college preparatory courses.
10	8		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	9		SECTION 1. Section 51.3062(q-2), Education Code, is amended
12	10		to read as follows:
13	11		(q-2) A student who successfully completes a college
14	12		preparatory course under Section 28.014 is exempt from the
15	13		requirements of this section with respect to the content area of the
16	14		course. The exemption is effective for the two-year period
17	15		following the date the student graduates from high school, and the
18	16		student must enroll in the student's first college-level course in
19	17		the exempted content area in the student's first year of enrollment
20	18		in an institution of higher education. If the student earns less
21	19		than a C in the student's first college-level course in the exempted
22	20		content area, the institution shall advise the student of
23	21		non-course-based options for becoming college ready, such as
24	22		tutoring or accelerated learning. [The commissioner of higher
25	23		education by rule shall establish the period for which an exemption
26	24		under this subsection is valid.] The exemption applies only at the
27	25		institution of higher education that partners with the school
28	26		district in which the student is enrolled to provide the course,
29	27		except that the commissioner by rule may determine the manner in
30	28		which the exemption may be applied to institutions of higher
31	29		education other than the partnering institution. The Texas Higher
32	30		Education Coordinating Board shall collect and analyze data
33	31		regarding the effectiveness of college preparatory courses as
34	32		measured by students' successful completion of the first
35	33		college-level course in the exempted content area. The board shall
36	34		report its findings to all partnering institutions of higher
37	35		education and independent school districts of each college
38	36		preparatory course evaluated, as well as the governor, lieutenant
39	37		governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and the members
40	38		of the House and Senate Committees on Higher Education.
41	39		SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
42	40		beginning with the assessment of entering undergraduate students at
43	41		public institutions of higher education for the 2015 fall semester.
44	42		The assessment of an entering undergraduate student for an academic
45	43		term before that semester is covered by the law in effect before the
46	44		effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
47	45		that purpose.
48	46		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
49	47		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
50	48		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
51	49		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
52	50		Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
	51	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	52	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	53	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1776 passed the Senate on
	54	+	April 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
	55	+	______________________________
	56	+	Secretary of the Senate
	57	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1776 passed the House on
	58	+	May 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 1, two
	59	+	present not voting.
	60	+	______________________________
	61	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	62	+	Approved:
	63	+	______________________________
	64	+	Date
	65	+	______________________________
	66	+	Governor