By: Stucky (Senate Sponsor - Powell) H.B. No. 1891
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2019;
April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 19, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an exemption from the assessment requirements of the
Texas Success Initiative for students who achieve a certain score
on a high school equivalency examination.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.338, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
(h) A student who has achieved a score set by the board on a
high school equivalency examination administered under Section
7.111 is exempt from the requirements of this subchapter. The
commissioner of higher education by rule shall establish the period
for which an exemption under this subsection is valid.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with the assessment of entering undergraduate students at
public institutions of higher education for the 2020 fall semester.
The assessment of an entering undergraduate student for an academic
term before that semester is governed by the law in effect before
the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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