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| 2 | 2 | | By: Burton S.B. No. 499 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to a requirement that a student's postsecondary transcript |
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| 8 | 8 | | include the average or median grade awarded in each class. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is |
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| 11 | 11 | | amended by adding Section 51.979 to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | Sec. 51.979. TRANSPARENCY IN STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS. (a) In |
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| 13 | 13 | | this section, "general academic teaching institution" has the |
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| 14 | 14 | | meaning assigned by Section 61.003. |
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| 15 | 15 | | (b) Each general academic teaching institution shall |
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| 16 | 16 | | include on a student's transcript, for each class attempted by the |
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| 17 | 17 | | student: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (1) the average grade awarded to all students in the |
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| 19 | 19 | | class; or |
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| 20 | 20 | | (2) for a class for which letter grades are awarded to |
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| 21 | 21 | | all students in the class, the median grade awarded. |
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| 22 | 22 | | (c) The institution shall place the average or median grade, |
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| 23 | 23 | | as applicable, immediately to the right of the student's individual |
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| 24 | 24 | | grade. |
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| 25 | 25 | | (d) This section does not apply to a class: |
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| 26 | 26 | | (1) offered to students solely on a pass-fail basis or |
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| 27 | 27 | | for independent study credit; or |
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| 28 | 28 | | (2) in which grades are reported for 10 students or |
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| 29 | 29 | | fewer. |
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| 30 | 30 | | (e) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall |
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| 31 | 31 | | adopt rules to administer this section. |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board |
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| 33 | 33 | | shall adopt the rules required by Section 51.979, Education Code, |
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| 34 | 34 | | as added by this Act, as soon as practicable after this Act takes |
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| 35 | 35 | | effect. For that purpose, the coordinating board may adopt the |
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| 36 | 36 | | initial rules in the manner provided by law for emergency rules. |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies |
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| 38 | 38 | | beginning with the 2015 fall semester. |
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| 39 | 39 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 40 | 40 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 41 | 41 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 42 | 42 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 43 | 43 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |
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