Bill Text: TX HB2694 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the provision of credit by examination for public school students.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2694 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2694-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of credit by examination for public school students.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2694 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2694-Introduced.html
By: Villarreal | H.B. No. 2694 |
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relating to establishing a state-level credit by examination | ||
program for public secondary education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 28.0235 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 28.0235. STATE-LEVEL PROGRAM FOR CREDIT BY | ||
EXAMINATION. The commissioner by rule shall establish a state-level | ||
program for public secondary education in this state under which a | ||
student in a Texas public high school may receive credit by | ||
examination for any course required or offered by a Texas public | ||
high school. The commissioner: | ||
(1) shall ensure that the examination for each course | ||
thoroughly tests, at the applicable grade level, mastery of the | ||
skills taught or comprehension of the information presented in the | ||
course; | ||
(2) shall ensure that a student who takes an | ||
examination under the program receives credit for the applicable | ||
course by the student's school and school district if the student's | ||
score on the examination for that course is at or above the level | ||
established by the commissioner as the passing score for that | ||
examination for purposes of this program; and | ||
(3) shall require the student's school and school | ||
district to enter the examination score on a student's transcript | ||
if the student is given credit for a course on the | ||
basis of an | ||
examination under the program. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |