73R1048 SOS-F
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 student's transcript shall retain references to all
1-20 courses completed.
1-21 (d) Subsection (b) of this section applies only to a student
1-22 who repeats the course at the same institution at which the course
1-23 was previously completed and only to a course that has a content
1-24 that has not varied significantly from the first time the student
2-1 completed the course and that the student has completed not more
2-2 than two times. The content of a course that has changed because
2-3 of advances in knowledge or technology has not varied significantly
2-4 for purposes of this subsection. If a student completes a course
2-5 more than two times, each of the student's grades in that course
2-6 shall be included in the calculation of the student's official
2-7 grade point average.
2-8 SECTION 2. Section 61.074, Education Code, as amended by
2-9 this Act, applies only to the calculation of official grade point
2-10 averages beginning with the fall semester in 1993.
2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-17 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-18 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-19 Amend H.B. No. 1 as follows:
2-20 On page 2, strike SECTION 2 in its entirety and substitute in
2-21 lieu thereof a new SECTION 2 to read as follows:
2-22 "SECTION 2. Section 61.074, Education Code, as amended by
2-23 this Act, applies only to the calculation of official grade point
2-24 averages beginning with the fall semester in 1995. From the
2-25 effective date of this Act, to the beginning of the fall semester
2-26 in 1995, the provisions of this Act shall be implemented concurrent
2-27 with routine computer acquisition, maintenance and upgrade."
3-1 Delco
3-2 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 2
3-3 Amend House Bill 1 as follows:
3-4 Amend Page 1, between lines 18 & 19, as new subsection (c) as
3-5 follows:
3-6 (c) The provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall
3-7 be limited to 15 semester hours or credits during the students
3-8 undergraduate curriculum and shall not apply to graduate level
3-9 courses or to the curriculum of a medical school, law school or
3-10 other postgraduate institution.
3-11 Renumber remaining subsections accordingly.
3-12 Duncan