Bill Text: TX HB1268 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the computation of public high school grade point averages.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1268 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1268-Comm_Sub.html
82R19139 CAE-F | |||
By: Murphy, Allen, Eissler, Patrick, Cook | H.B. No. 1268 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1268: | |||
By: Hochberg | C.S.H.B. No. 1268 |
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relating to the computation of public high school grade point | ||
averages. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.0252, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1), (a-2), (a-3), | ||
and (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commissioner may develop a standard method of | ||
computing a student's high school grade point average that provides | ||
for additional weight to be given to each honors course, advanced | ||
placement course, international baccalaureate course, or dual | ||
credit course completed by a student. Any standard method | ||
developed under this subsection must be consistent with the | ||
requirements of Subsection (a-1). | ||
(a-1) A school district that computes a student's high | ||
school grade point average in a manner that provides for additional | ||
weight to be given to any of the following types of courses | ||
completed by a student shall provide for the same weight to be given | ||
to all of the following types of courses completed by a student: | ||
(1) an honors course; | ||
(2) an advanced placement course; or | ||
(3) a dual credit course other than a physical | ||
education course. | ||
(a-2) A school district may provide that additional weight | ||
is given to a course other than the courses provided by Subsection | ||
(a-1), except that a district may not provide additional weight for | ||
a dual credit physical education course. | ||
(a-3) A student's grade point average computed in the manner | ||
provided by Subsection (a-1) and any additional weight determined | ||
by the district as provided by Subsection (a-2) shall be used in | ||
determining the student's eligibility for automatic college | ||
admission under Sections 51.803 and 51.804. | ||
(b-1) Subsection (a-1) applies only to students entering | ||
grade nine during or after the 2011-2012 school year. This | ||
subsection expires September 1, 2015. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 51.807(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Section 28.0252(a-3), the [ |
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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may adopt rules relating | ||
to the operation of admissions programs under this subchapter, | ||
including rules relating to the identification of eligible | ||
students. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2011. |