Bill Text: TX SB2079 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that a student's postsecondary transcript include the average or median grade awarded in each class.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Referred to Higher Education [SB2079 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2079-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that a student's postsecondary transcript include the average or median grade awarded in each class.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Referred to Higher Education [SB2079 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2079-Comm_Sub.html
By: Taylor of Galveston | S.B. No. 2079 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 28, 2017, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
May 8, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 8, 2017, sent | ||
to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2079 | By: Menéndez |
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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" and "public | ||
junior college" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
(b) Each general academic teaching institution and each | ||
public junior college 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 or college shall include on the | ||
transcript the median grade of the letter grades awarded in the | ||
class. The institution or college 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. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies | ||
beginning with classes offered in the 2018 spring 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, 2017. | ||
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