Bill Text: TX SB1776 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the exemption from the assessment requirements of the Texas Success Initiative for students who successfully complete certain college preparatory courses.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Effective immediately [SB1776 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1776-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1776 |
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relating to the exemption from the assessment requirements of the | ||
Texas Success Initiative for students who successfully complete | ||
certain college preparatory courses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.3062(q-2), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(q-2) A student who successfully completes a college | ||
preparatory course under Section 28.014 is exempt from the | ||
requirements of this section with respect to the content area of the | ||
course. The exemption is effective for the two-year period | ||
following the date the student graduates from high school, and the | ||
student must enroll in the student's first college-level course in | ||
the exempted content area in the student's first year of enrollment | ||
in an institution of higher education. If the student earns less | ||
than a C in the student's first college-level course in the exempted | ||
content area, the institution shall advise the student of | ||
non-course-based options for becoming college ready, such as | ||
tutoring or accelerated learning. [ |
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institution of higher education that partners with the school | ||
district in which the student is enrolled to provide the course, | ||
except that the commissioner by rule may determine the manner in | ||
which the exemption may be applied to institutions of higher | ||
education other than the partnering institution. The Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board shall collect and analyze data | ||
regarding the effectiveness of college preparatory courses as | ||
measured by students' successful completion of the first | ||
college-level course in the exempted content area. The board shall | ||
report its findings to all partnering institutions of higher | ||
education and independent school districts of each college | ||
preparatory course evaluated, as well as the governor, lieutenant | ||
governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and the members | ||
of the House and Senate Committees on Higher Education. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies | ||
beginning with the assessment of entering undergraduate students at | ||
public institutions of higher education for the 2015 fall semester. | ||
The assessment of an entering undergraduate student for an academic | ||
term before that semester is covered by the law in effect before the | ||
effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
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, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1776 passed the Senate on | ||
April 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1776 passed the House on | ||
May 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 1, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |