Bill Text: TX HB1179 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that a student's postsecondary transcript include the average or median grade awarded in each class.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-21 - Referred to Higher Education [HB1179 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1179-Introduced.html
By: Johnson of Harris | H.B. No. 1179 |
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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" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
(b) Each general academic teaching institution 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 shall include on the transcript the median grade that | ||
was awarded to all students in the class. | ||
The institution 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. For that purpose, the coordinating board may adopt the | ||
initial rules in the manner provided by law for emergency rules. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies | ||
beginning with the 2017 fall 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. |