Bill Text: TX HB3621 | 2019-2020 | 86th 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: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Left pending in committee [HB3621 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3621-Introduced.html
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| By: Schaefer | H.B. No. 3621 | |
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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 51.980 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.980. 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 of the | ||
| letter grades awarded 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 51.980, 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 2019 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, 2019. | ||
