1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 1324
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 30, 1993; March 31, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 15, 1993,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 15, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1324 By: Bivins
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to a qualified exemption of certain students from the
1-23 Texas academic skills program.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 51.306, Education Code, is amended by
1-26 amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (n) to read as
1-27 follows:
1-28 (b) Except as provided by Subsections (m) and (n) of this
1-29 section, all <All> students in the following categories who enter
1-30 public institutions of higher education <in the fall of 1989 and
1-31 thereafter> must be tested for reading, writing, and mathematics
1-32 skills:
1-33 (1) all full-time and part-time freshmen enrolled in a
1-34 certificate or degree program;
1-35 (2) any other student, prior to the accumulation of
1-36 nine or more semester credit hours or the equivalent; and
1-37 (3) any transfer student with fewer than 60 semester
1-38 credit hours or the equivalent who has not previously taken the
1-39 tests.
1-40 For that purpose, the institution shall use a test instrument
1-41 prescribed by the board. The same instrument shall be used at all
1-42 public institutions of higher education.
1-43 (n) This section does not apply to a student who is exempted
1-44 by this subsection or has previously qualified for an exemption
1-45 under this subsection. A student is exempt if the student:
1-46 (1) has scores that are at least in the 80th
1-47 percentile, or a higher percentile established by Texas Higher
1-48 Education Coordinating Board rule, on:
1-49 (A) the math, writing, and reading sections of
1-50 the American College Test or the test described by Section
1-51 21.551(a) of this code; or
1-52 (B) the verbal and math sections of the
1-53 Scholastic Assessment Test; and
1-54 (2) enrolls at an institution of higher education not
1-55 later than the fifth anniversary of the date the student took the
1-56 test on which the student received the scores described by this
1-57 subsection.
1-58 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-59 51.306, Education Code, applies beginning with the fall semester in
1-60 1993.
1-61 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-62 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-63 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-64 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-65 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-66 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-67 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-68 * * * * *
2-1 Austin,
2-2 Texas
2-3 April 15, 1993
2-4 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-5 President of the Senate
2-6 Sir:
2-7 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No.
2-8 1324, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-9 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-10 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-11 pass and be printed.
2-12 Ratliff,
2-13 Chairman
2-14 * * * * *
2-15 WITNESSES
2-16 FOR AGAINST ON
2-17 ___________________________________________________________________
2-18 Name: Joan M. Matthews x
2-19 Representing: Tx Higher Ed. Coordinating Boa
2-20 City: San Marcos
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