Bill Text: TX SB1721 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that a student's postsecondary transcript include the average or median grade awarded in each class.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-25 - Referred to Higher Education [SB1721 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1721-Introduced.html
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| By: Patrick | S.B. No. 1721 | |
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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 51.979 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.979. 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 that | ||
| was awarded to all students 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 51.979, Education Code, | ||
| as added by this Act, as soon as practicable after this Act takes | ||
| effect. For that purpose, the coordinating board may adopt the | ||
| initial rules in the manner provided by law for emergency rules. | ||
| SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies | ||
| beginning with the 2013 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, 2013. | ||
