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.