By Kubiak                                                H.B. No. 1
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the calculation of the official grade point average of
    1-3  a student enrolled at a public institution of higher education.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 61.074, Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 61.074.  Official Grade Point Average.  (a)  The board
    1-8  shall by rule establish a mandatory uniform method of calculating
    1-9  the official grade point average of a student enrolled in, or
   1-10  seeking admission to a graduate or professional school of, an
   1-11  institution of higher education.
   1-12        (b)  In calculating the official grade point average of a
   1-13  student enrolled in an institution of higher education, the
   1-14  institution shall exclude from the calculation a grade that is the
   1-15  equivalent of a "C," "D," or "F" received by the student in a
   1-16  course that the student has repeated with a grade superior to the
   1-17  grade received by the student the first time the student completed
   1-18  the course.
   1-19        (c)  The provisions of Subsection (b) of this section shall
   1-20  be limited to 15 semester hours or credits during the student's
   1-21  undergraduate curriculum and shall not apply to graduate-level
   1-22  courses or to the curriculum of a medical school, law school, or
   1-23  other postgraduate institution.
   1-24        (d)  The student's transcript shall retain references to all
    2-1  courses completed.
    2-2        (e)  Subsection (b) of this section applies only to a student
    2-3  who repeats the course at the same institution at which the course
    2-4  was previously completed and only to a course that has a content
    2-5  that has not varied significantly from the first time the student
    2-6  completed the course and that the student has completed not more
    2-7  than two times.  The content of a course that has changed because
    2-8  of advances in knowledge or technology has not varied significantly
    2-9  for purposes of this subsection.  If a student completes a course
   2-10  more than two times, each of the student's grades in that course
   2-11  shall be included in the calculation of the student's official
   2-12  grade point average.
   2-13        SECTION 2.  Section 61.074, Education Code, as amended by
   2-14  this Act, applies only to the calculation of official grade point
   2-15  averages beginning with the fall semester in 1995.  From the
   2-16  effective date of this Act to the beginning of the fall semester in
   2-17  1995, the provisions of this Act shall be implemented concurrent
   2-18  with routine computer acquisition, maintenance, and upgrade.
   2-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-25  passage, and it is so enacted.