Bill Text: TX HB3142 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that a public or private institution of higher education include a disciplinary notation on a student's transcript under certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3142 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3142-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Turner | H.B. No. 3142 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3142: | |||
By: Lozano | C.S.H.B. No. 3142 |
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relating to a requirement that a public or private institution of | ||
higher education include a disciplinary notation on a student's | ||
transcript under certain circumstances. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 51.9364 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.9364. CERTAIN DISCIPLINARY NOTATIONS REQUIRED ON | ||
STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS. (a) In this section, "postsecondary | ||
educational institution" means an institution of higher education | ||
or a private or independent institution of higher education, as | ||
those terms are defined by Section 61.003. | ||
(b) If a postsecondary educational institution suspends or | ||
expels a student from the institution for any reason, the | ||
institution shall include on the student's transcript a | ||
disciplinary notation stating that the student was suspended or | ||
expelled, as applicable, from the institution. | ||
(c) If a student withdraws from a postsecondary educational | ||
institution pending disciplinary charges that may result in the | ||
student's suspension or expulsion from the institution, the | ||
institution may not end the disciplinary process until the | ||
institution makes a final determination of responsibility, | ||
including, if applicable, a determination of whether to suspend or | ||
expel the student from the institution as a result. If the | ||
institution suspends or expels the student from the institution, | ||
the institution shall include a disciplinary notation on the | ||
student's transcript stating that the student was suspended or | ||
expelled, as applicable, from the institution. | ||
(d) On request by the student, a postsecondary educational | ||
institution may remove from a student's transcript a disciplinary | ||
notation indicating the student's suspension or expulsion, as | ||
applicable, from the institution if the institution determines | ||
that: | ||
(1) each condition of the suspension has been | ||
fulfilled, if applicable; or | ||
(2) good cause exists to remove the notation. | ||
(e) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall | ||
adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
shall adopt the rules required by Section 51.9364, Education Code, | ||
as added by this Act, as soon as practicable after this Act takes | ||
effect. | ||
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. |