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1	1	88R2623 JTZ-D
2	2	By: Howard H.B. No. 4523
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the period for which an applicant for admission as an
8	8	undergraduate student to a public institution of higher education
9	9	is entitled to an academic fresh start.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Section 51.931(c), Education Code, is amended to
12	12	read as follows:
13	13	(c) If an applicant elects to seek admission under this
14	14	section, a public institution of higher education:
15	15	(1) [,] in considering the applicant for admission,
16	16	may [shall] not consider academic course credits or grades earned
17	17	by the applicant five [10] or more years before [prior to] the
18	18	starting date of the semester in which the applicant seeks to
19	19	enroll; and
20	20	(2) if the institution enrolls the applicant as a
21	21	student, shall award the applicant academic credit for a number of
22	22	semester credit hours or the equivalent equal to the lesser of:
23	23	(A) the number of semester credit hours or the
24	24	equivalent earned by the applicant during the period described by
25	25	Subdivision (1); or
26	26	(B) six semester credit hours or the
27	27	equivalent. [An applicant who makes the election to apply under
28	28	this section and is admitted as a student may not receive any course
29	29	credit for courses undertaken 10 or more years prior to enrollment
30	30	under this section.]
31	31	SECTION 2. Section 61.0595(c), Education Code, is amended
32	32	to read as follows:
33	33	(c) For a student enrolled in a baccalaureate program under
34	34	Section 51.931, semester credit hours earned by the student five
35	35	[10] or more years before the date the student begins the new degree
36	36	program under Section 51.931 are not counted for purposes of
37	37	determining whether the student has previously earned the number of
38	38	semester credit hours specified by Subsection (a).
39	39	SECTION 3. Section 51.931(c), Education Code, as amended by
40	40	this Act, applies beginning with admissions to a public institution
41	41	of higher education for the 2023 fall semester.
42	42	SECTION 4. Section 61.0595(c), Education Code, as amended
43	43	by this Act, applies beginning with funding recommendations made
44	44	under Section 61.059, Education Code, for the state fiscal biennium
45	45	beginning September 1, 2025, for semester credit hours earned by
46	46	students enrolling in a baccalaureate degree program at a public
47	47	institution of higher education under Section 51.931, Education
48	48	Code, as added by this Act, for the 2023 fall semester or a
49	49	subsequent semester or term. Funding recommendations for semester
50	50	credit hours earned by a student who enrolled in a baccalaureate
51	51	degree program at a public institution of higher education under
52	52	Section 51.931, Education Code, as amended by this Act, before the
53	53	2023 fall semester are governed by the law in effect immediately
54	54	before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is
55	55	continued in effect for that purpose.
56	56	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
57	57	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
58	58	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
59	59	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
60	60	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.