Bill Text: TX HB1611 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1611 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-11 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB1611 Detail]

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	84R1729 KJE-D

	By: Guillen	H.B. No. 1611



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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 three-year period
	following the date the student graduates from high school. [~~The~~
	~~commissioner of higher education by rule shall establish the period~~
	~~for which an exemption under this subsection is valid.~~] The
	exemption applies only at the 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.
	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.