Bill Text: TX HB2123 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of students to have costs of college advanced placement tests or international baccalaureate examinations paid under agreements between the commissioner of education and the College Board and Educational Testing Service or the International Baccalaureate Organization.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-08 - Referred to Public Education [HB2123 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB2123-Introduced.html
  82R5819 CAS-D
 
  By: Lozano H.B. No. 2123
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the eligibility of students to have costs of college
  advanced placement tests or international baccalaureate
  examinations paid under agreements between the commissioner of
  education and the College Board and Educational Testing Service or
  the International Baccalaureate Organization.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 28.053(h), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (h)  The commissioner may enter into agreements with the
  college board and the International Baccalaureate Organization to
  pay for all examinations taken by eligible public school students.
  An eligible student is a student [one] who:
               (1)  takes a college advanced placement or
  international baccalaureate course at a public school or who is
  recommended by the student's principal or teacher to take the test;
  and
               (2)  demonstrates financial need as determined in
  accordance with guidelines adopted by the board that are consistent
  with the definition of financial need adopted by the college board
  or the International Baccalaureate Organization.
         SECTION 2.  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.
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