Bill Text: TX HB789 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to minimum scores required for students in certain school districts to pass an examination for acceleration or for credit.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB789 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB789-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 789 | ||
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| relating to minimum scores required for students in certain school | ||
| districts to pass an examination for acceleration or for credit. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 28.023, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (h) This subsection applies only to a school district | ||
| surrounded by a school district described by Section 11.065(a). | ||
| Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a school | ||
| district's board of trustees may establish a minimum required score | ||
| for each section of an examination for acceleration or an | ||
| examination for credit approved by the board under Subsection (a) | ||
| that is higher than the minimum required scores under Subsections | ||
| (b) and (c), respectively. A minimum required score established by | ||
| a board of trustees under this subsection: | ||
| (1) may be no greater than a score in the 90th | ||
| percentile; | ||
| (2) must be established before the beginning of a | ||
| school year for examinations to be administered in the school year; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) must apply for at least the entire school year. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 789 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 789 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
