| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 2025; April 3, 2025, read |
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| 3 | | - | first time and referred to Committee on Education K-16; |
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| 4 | | - | April 16, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, |
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| 5 | | - | Nays 0; April 16, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 11 | 7 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 12 | 8 | | AN ACT |
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| 13 | 9 | | relating to an exemption from the assessment requirements of the |
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| 14 | 10 | | Texas Success Initiative for students who achieve certain scores on |
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| 15 | 11 | | the PSAT. |
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| 16 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 17 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 51.338(b), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 18 | 14 | | read as follows: |
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| 19 | 15 | | (b) A student who has achieved a score set by the board on |
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| 20 | 16 | | the PSAT, SAT, or ACT is exempt from the requirements of this |
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| 21 | 17 | | subchapter. An exemption under this subsection is effective for |
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| 22 | 18 | | the five-year period following the date a student takes the test and |
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| 23 | 19 | | achieves the standard set by the board. |
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| 24 | 20 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies |
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| 25 | 21 | | beginning with the assessment of entering undergraduate students at |
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| 26 | 22 | | public institutions of higher education for the 2026 fall semester. |
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| 27 | 23 | | The assessment of an entering undergraduate student for an academic |
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| 28 | 24 | | term before that semester is governed by the law in effect before |
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| 29 | 25 | | the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect |
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| 30 | 26 | | for that purpose. |
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| 31 | 27 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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