Bill Text: TX SB1543 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the admission of undergraduate students with nontraditional secondary education to public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB1543 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1543-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the admission of undergraduate students with nontraditional secondary education to public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB1543 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1543-Comm_Sub.html
By: Perry, et al. | S.B. No. 1543 | |
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relating to the admission of undergraduate students with | ||
nontraditional secondary education to public institutions of | ||
higher education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.9241, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) Because the State of Texas considers successful | ||
completion of a nontraditional secondary education to be equivalent | ||
to graduation from a public high school, an institution of higher | ||
education must treat an applicant for admission to the institution | ||
as an undergraduate student who presents evidence that the person | ||
has successfully completed a nontraditional secondary education | ||
according to the same general standards, including specific | ||
standardized testing score requirements, as other applicants for | ||
undergraduate admission who have graduated from a public high | ||
school. | ||
(d) If an institution of higher education in its | ||
undergraduate admission review process sorts applicants by high | ||
school graduating class rank, the institution shall place any | ||
applicant who presents evidence that the applicant has successfully | ||
completed a nontraditional secondary education that does not | ||
include a high school graduating class ranking at the average high | ||
school graduating class rank of undergraduate applicants to the | ||
institution who have equivalent standardized testing scores as the | ||
applicant. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply | ||
beginning with admissions to a public institution of higher | ||
education for the 2016 fall semester. Admissions to a public | ||
institution of higher education for a term or semester before the | ||
2016 fall semester are governed by the law in effect immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |