85R11578 KJE-D
By: Turner H.B. No. 3142
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement that a public institution of higher
education include a disciplinary notation on a student's transcript
under certain circumstances.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.9364 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.9364. CERTAIN DISCIPLINARY NOTATIONS REQUIRED ON
STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS. (a) In this section, "institution of higher
education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) If an institution of higher education suspends or expels
a student from the institution for any reason, the institution
shall include on the student's transcript a disciplinary notation
stating that the student was suspended or expelled, as applicable,
from the institution.
(c) If a student withdraws from an institution of higher
education pending disciplinary charges that may have resulted in
the student's suspension or expulsion from the institution if the
student had not withdrawn, the institution may not end the
disciplinary process until the institution makes a final
determination of responsibility, including, if applicable, a
determination of whether the student would have been suspended or
expelled from the institution as a result. If the institution
determines that the student would have been suspended or expelled
from the institution, the institution shall include a disciplinary
notation on the student's transcript stating that the student would
have been suspended or expelled, as applicable, from the
institution if the student had not withdrawn.
(d) An institution of higher education shall remove from a
student's transcript a disciplinary notation indicating the
student's suspension from the institution if the institution
determines that each condition of the suspension has been
fulfilled. A suspended student may file a petition with the
institution requesting removal of the disciplinary notation under
this subsection.
(e) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
adopt rules as necessary to implement this section, including rules
establishing a process for a student to appeal or petition for the
removal of a disciplinary notation under this section.
SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
shall adopt the rules required by Section 51.9364, Education Code,
as added by this Act, as soon as practicable after this Act takes
effect.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with the 2017 fall semester.
SECTION 4. 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, 2017.