Bill Text: TX HB505 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition of limitations on the number of dual credit courses or hours in which a public high school student may enroll.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-23 - Effective immediately [HB505 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB505-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition of limitations on the number of dual credit courses or hours in which a public high school student may enroll.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-23 - Effective immediately [HB505 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB505-Comm_Sub.html
By: Rodriguez of Travis, et al. | H.B. No. 505 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Estes) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2015; | ||
April 21, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 7, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 7, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to a prohibition of limitations on the number of dual | ||
credit courses or hours in which a public high school student may | ||
enroll. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.009(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The agency shall coordinate with the Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board as necessary in administering this | ||
section. The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary concerning | ||
the duties under this section of a school district. The Texas | ||
Higher Education Coordinating Board may adopt rules as necessary | ||
concerning the duties under this section of a public institution of | ||
higher education. A rule may not limit: | ||
(1) the number of dual credit courses or hours in which | ||
a student may enroll while in high school; | ||
(2) the number of dual credit courses or hours in which | ||
a student may enroll each semester or academic year; or | ||
(3) the grade levels at which a high school student may | ||
be eligible to enroll in a dual credit course. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 130.008(f), Education Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
school year. | ||
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, 2015. | ||
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