By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 2079
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 28, 2017, read
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
May 8, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 8, 2017, sent
to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2079 By: Menéndez
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement that a student's postsecondary transcript
include the average or median grade awarded in each class.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.979 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.979. TRANSPARENCY IN STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS. (a) In
this section, "general academic teaching institution" and "public
junior college" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) Each general academic teaching institution and each
public junior college shall include on a student's transcript, for
each class attempted by the student, the average grade that was
awarded to all students in the class. For a class for which letter
grades are awarded, the institution or college shall include on the
transcript the median grade of the letter grades awarded in the
class. The institution or college shall place the average or median
grade, as applicable, immediately to the right of the student's
individual grade.
(c) Subsection (b) does not apply to a class:
(1) offered to students solely on a pass-fail basis or
for independent study credit; or
(2) in which grades are reported for 10 students or
fewer.
(d) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
adopt rules to administer this section.
SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
shall adopt the rules required by Section 51.979, 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 classes offered in the 2018 spring 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.
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