Bill Text: TX HB5111 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for the early college education program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Referred to Higher Education [HB5111 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5111-Introduced.html
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By: Allen | H.B. No. 5111 |
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relating to requirements for the early college education program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 29.908, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-3) and (h) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The program must: | ||
(1) provide for a course of study that enables a | ||
participating student to combine high school courses and | ||
college-level courses during grade levels 9 through 12; | ||
(2) allow a participating student to complete high | ||
school and, on or before the fifth anniversary of the date of the | ||
student's first day of high school, receive a high school diploma | ||
and either: | ||
(A) an associate degree; or | ||
(B) at least 60 semester credit hours toward a | ||
baccalaureate degree; | ||
(3) include articulation agreements with colleges, | ||
universities, and technical schools in this state to provide a | ||
participating student access to postsecondary educational and | ||
training opportunities at a college, university, or technical | ||
school; [ |
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(4) provide a participating student flexibility in | ||
class scheduling and academic mentoring; | ||
(5) allow a student to participate in the program | ||
without receiving a scale score that indicates satisfactory | ||
performance on a college readiness assessment instrument | ||
designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board under | ||
Section 51.334; and | ||
(6) provide flexibility for school districts' and | ||
open-enrollment charter schools' committees described by | ||
Subsection (b-3) to have discretion over the eligibility of a | ||
student to participate in the program, including by allowing the | ||
student to be exempt from an assessment requirement related to the | ||
program. | ||
(b-3) A student's eligibility to participate in the program | ||
shall be determined by, as applicable: | ||
(1) the student's admission, review, and dismissal | ||
committee; | ||
(2) a committee established for the student under | ||
Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. Section 794); or | ||
(3) if Subdivisions (1) and (2) are not applicable to | ||
the student, a committee composed of the student, the student's | ||
parent or person standing in parental relation to the student, a | ||
school administrator, and a teacher. | ||
(h) A high school designated as an early college high school | ||
shall report through the Public Education Information System | ||
(PEIMS) the number of students who were dismissed before graduating | ||
from the high school in conjunction with the student's performance | ||
on applicable Texas Success Initiative (TSI) college readiness | ||
benchmarks prescribed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board under Section 51.334 on an assessment instrument designated | ||
by the coordinating board under that section, disaggregated by | ||
students' race, ethnicity, sex, grade level, and status as: | ||
(1) students enrolled in a special education program; | ||
(2) educationally disadvantaged students; | ||
(3) emergent bilingual students, as defined by Section | ||
29.052; and | ||
(4) students experiencing homelessness. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |