Bill Text: TX SB64 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the period for which an applicant for admission as an undergraduate student to a public institution of higher education is entitled to an academic fresh start.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-11 - Filed [SB64 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB64-Introduced.html
By: Eckhardt, et al. | S.B. No. 64 | |
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relating to the period for which an applicant for admission as an | ||
undergraduate student to a public institution of higher education | ||
is entitled to an academic fresh start. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.931, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (c-1) and (c-2) to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) In considering an applicant for admission under this | ||
section, a public institution of higher education may choose to | ||
disregard academic course credits or grades earned by the applicant | ||
more recently than 10 years before the starting date of the semester | ||
in which the applicant seeks to enroll, except the institution may | ||
not disregard any credits or grades earned during the five-year | ||
period preceding that date. An institution that chooses to | ||
disregard course credits or grades earned during the additional | ||
period permitted by this subsection must disregard all course | ||
credits or grades earned during that period and may not award any | ||
credit for those courses. | ||
(c-2) Each public institution of higher education shall | ||
adopt, post on the institution's Internet website, and submit to | ||
the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board a policy regarding | ||
the admissions made by the institution under this section, | ||
including the period for which an applicant's course credits or | ||
grades will be considered by the institution under the policy. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 61.0595(c), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) For a student enrolled in a baccalaureate program under | ||
Section 51.931, semester credit hours that were earned by the | ||
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disregarded under institution policy as described by that section | ||
are not counted for purposes of determining whether the student has | ||
previously earned the number of semester credit hours specified by | ||
Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 3. Section 51.931, Education Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies beginning with admissions to a public institution | ||
of higher education for the 2023 fall semester. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 61.0595(c), Education Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, applies beginning with funding recommendations made | ||
under Section 61.059, Education Code, for the state fiscal biennium | ||
beginning September 1, 2025, for semester credit hours earned by | ||
students enrolling in a baccalaureate degree program at a public | ||
institution of higher education under Section 51.931, Education | ||
Code, as amended by this Act, for the 2023 fall semester or a | ||
subsequent semester or term. Funding recommendations for semester | ||
credit hours earned by a student who enrolled in a baccalaureate | ||
degree program at a public institution of higher education under | ||
Section 51.931, Education Code, as amended by this Act, before the | ||
2023 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 5. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. |