BILL ANALYSIS S.B. 453 By: Seliger Public Education Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties contend that the minimum score on an examination administered through the College-Level Examination Program that a student must score in order to receive credit for a subject needs to be modified. S.B. 453 seeks to address this issue. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS S.B. 453 amends the Education Code to lower from 60 to 50 the minimum scaled score a student in grade level six or above must score on an examination approved by the board of trustees of a school district and administered through the College-Level Examination Program in order for the district to be required to give the student credit for a subject. The bill applies beginning with the 20152016 school year. EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2015.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
S.B. 453
By: Seliger
Public Education
Committee Report (Unamended)
S.B. 453
By: Seliger
Public Education
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties contend that the minimum score on an examination administered through the College-Level Examination Program that a student must score in order to receive credit for a subject needs to be modified. S.B. 453 seeks to address this issue.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS S.B. 453 amends the Education Code to lower from 60 to 50 the minimum scaled score a student in grade level six or above must score on an examination approved by the board of trustees of a school district and administered through the College-Level Examination Program in order for the district to be required to give the student credit for a subject. The bill applies beginning with the 20152016 school year.
EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2015.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties contend that the minimum score on an examination administered through the College-Level Examination Program that a student must score in order to receive credit for a subject needs to be modified. S.B. 453 seeks to address this issue.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
S.B. 453 amends the Education Code to lower from 60 to 50 the minimum scaled score a student in grade level six or above must score on an examination approved by the board of trustees of a school district and administered through the College-Level Examination Program in order for the district to be required to give the student credit for a subject. The bill applies beginning with the 20152016 school year.
EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2015.