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House Bill 1603 |
House Author: Huberty et al. |
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Effective: 6-7-21 |
Senate Sponsor: Seliger et al. |
House Bill 1603 amends the Education Code to extend the use of individual graduation committees and other alternative methods of satisfying public high school graduation requirements by removing and repealing certain expiration dates, including expiration dates for the following:
· provisions establishing the individual graduation committee review process;
· provisions authorizing the substitution of certain Texas Success Initiative diagnostic test scores for satisfactory end-of-course test performance in Algebra I and English II; and
· provisions extending the use of individual graduation committees and other alternative graduation qualification procedures to open-enrollment charter schools.
The bill authorizes a special accreditation investigation by the commissioner of education when 10 percent or more of the students graduating in a particular school year from a particular high school campus are awarded a diploma based on an individual graduation committee review.