Bill Text: TX HB524 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to transcript notation requirements for public institutions of higher education.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-20 - Referred to Higher Education [HB524 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB524-Introduced.html
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| By: Neave | H.B. No. 524 | |
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| relating to transcript notation requirements for public | ||
| institutions of higher education. | ||
| 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. DISCIPLINARY NOTATIONS REGARDING SEX | ||
| OFFENSES REQUIRED ON STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (2) "Sex offense" means a sex offense that an | ||
| institution of higher education is required to report under the | ||
| Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime | ||
| Statistics Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1092(f)). | ||
| (b) If an institution of higher education determines, in | ||
| accordance with the institution's disciplinary procedures, that a | ||
| student has violated the institution's code of conduct by | ||
| committing a sex offense, the institution shall include on the | ||
| student's transcript a disciplinary notation that states: | ||
| (1) that the student was determined by the institution | ||
| to have violated the institution's code of conduct by committing a | ||
| sex offense; and | ||
| (2) whether the student was suspended or expelled from | ||
| the institution as a result of the determination. | ||
| (c) If a student withdraws from an institution of higher | ||
| education pending disciplinary charges alleging that the student | ||
| violated the institution's code of conduct by committing a sex | ||
| offense, the institution shall include on the student's transcript | ||
| a disciplinary notation stating that fact. | ||
| (d) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall | ||
| adopt rules as necessary to implement this section, including rules | ||
| establishing a process for a student to appeal for the removal of a | ||
| disciplinary notation under 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 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. | ||
