By: Taylor of Galveston	S.B. No. 2079

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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, not later than September 1, 2020.
	SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies
	beginning with classes offered in the 2022 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, 2017.