By: Bivins S.B. No. 1324 73R1516 SOS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the exemption of certain students from the Texas 1-3 academic skills program. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.306(m), Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (m) This section does not apply to a student: 1-8 (1) located outside this state who enrolls in a course 1-9 offered outside this state by an institution of higher education; 1-10 or 1-11 (2) who has a composite score on the American College 1-12 Test, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, or a similar assessment test 1-13 that is in the 85th percentile or higher. 1-14 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section 1-15 51.306(m), Education Code, applies beginning with the fall semester 1-16 in 1993. The former law applies before that semester and is 1-17 continued in effect for this purpose only. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.