Bill Text: TX HB449 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 449 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that a public or private institution of higher education include a notation on a student's transcript under certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB449 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB449-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 449




	AN ACT
	relating to a requirement that a public or private institution of
	higher education include a notation on a student's transcript under
	certain circumstances.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 51.9364 to read as follows:
	Sec. 51.9364. CERTAIN NOTATIONS REQUIRED ON STUDENT
	TRANSCRIPTS. (a) In this section, "postsecondary educational
	institution" means an institution of higher education or a private
	or independent institution of higher education, as those terms are
	defined by Section 61.003.
	(b) If a student is ineligible to reenroll in a
	postsecondary educational institution for a reason other than an
	academic or financial reason, the institution shall include on the
	student's transcript a notation stating that the student is
	ineligible to reenroll in the institution for a reason other than an
	academic or financial reason.
	(c) If a student withdraws from a postsecondary educational
	institution pending disciplinary charges that may result in the
	student becoming ineligible to reenroll in the institution for a
	reason other than an academic or financial reason, the institution
	may not end the disciplinary process until the institution makes a
	final determination of responsibility, including, if applicable, a
	determination of whether the student will be ineligible to reenroll
	in the institution for a reason other than an academic or financial
	reason. If, as a result of the disciplinary process, the student is
	ineligible to reenroll in the institution for a reason other than an
	academic or financial reason, the institution shall include on the
	student's transcript the notation required under Subsection (b).
	(d) On request by the student, a postsecondary educational
	institution may remove from a student's transcript a notation
	required under this section if:
	(1) the student is eligible to reenroll in the
	institution; or
	(2) the institution determines that good cause exists
	to remove the notation.
	(e) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
	adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. In adopting
	those rules, the coordinating board shall use the negotiated
	rulemaking procedures under Chapter 2008, Government Code.
	SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
	shall adopt the rules required by Section 51.9364, 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 the 2019 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, 2019.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 449 was passed by the House on April
	17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 107, Nays 32, 1 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 449 was passed by the Senate on May
	21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor