By Bivins S.B. No. 1324
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1324:
By Linebarger C.S.S.B. No. 1324
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the provision by public institutions of higher
1-3 education of information relating to the Texas academic skills
1-4 program.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 51.306, Education Code, is amended by
1-7 adding new Subsections (m) and (n) and renumbering the current
1-8 subsection (m) to read as follows:
1-9 (m) A high school student who performs at or above a level
1-10 on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills test to be set by the
1-11 board are exempt from this law. This exemption will be in effect
1-12 for three years from the date the TAAS is taken and the set score
1-13 level is achieved. Students enrolling for the first time in Texas
1-14 public colleges and universities after the three year period has
1-15 elapsed must conform to all provisions of this law.
1-16 Entering or transferring students who have achieved a score
1-17 to be set by the board on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or the ACT
1-18 Assessment are exempt from the requirements of this law. This
1-19 exemption will be in effect for five years from the date either the
1-20 SAT or the ACT tests are taken and the set standard is achieved.
1-21 Students enrolling for the first time in Texas public colleges and
1-22 universities after the five year period has elapsed must conform to
1-23 all provisions of this law.
1-24 (n) The board shall adopt rules necessary for the
2-1 administration of this subchapter.
2-2 <m> (o) This section does not apply to a student located
2-3 outside this state who enrolls in a course offered outside this
2-4 state by an institution of higher education.
2-5 SECTION 2. SECTION 51.306(m), Education Code, as added by
2-6 this Act, applies for admission to a public institution of higher
2-7 education, as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code on or after
2-8 the beginning the fall semester, 1993.
2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.