1-1 By: Hochberg (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 114
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
1-3 April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 17, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the testing and remedial education of certain students
1-9 enrolling in public institutions of higher education.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 51.306(a)(1), Education Code, is amended
1-12 to read as follows:
1-13 (1) "Board," <and> "institution of higher education,"
1-14 and "private or independent institution of higher education" have
1-15 the meanings assigned by Section 61.003 of this code.
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 51.306, Education Code, is amended by
1-17 adding Subsections (q)-(s) to read as follows:
1-18 (q) This section does not apply to a student at an
1-19 institution of higher education who:
1-20 (1) enrolls on a temporary basis in the institution of
1-21 higher education; and
1-22 (2) is also enrolled in a private or independent
1-23 institution of higher education or an out-of-state institution of
1-24 higher education or has graduated from an institution of higher
1-25 education, a private or independent institution of higher
1-26 education, or an out-of-state institution of higher education.
1-27 (r) To receive an exemption under Subsection (q), a student
1-28 must:
1-29 (1) if the student claims the exemption because the
1-30 student is also enrolled in a private or independent institution of
1-31 higher education or an out-of-state institution of higher
1-32 education, present to the institution of higher education at which
1-33 the student seeks the exemption as evidence of enrollment in the
1-34 other institution:
1-35 (A) a transcript, grade report, or paid fee
1-36 receipt from the preceding semester; or
1-37 (B) any other evidence acceptable to the
1-38 institution of higher education as proof of enrollment in the other
1-39 institution;
1-40 (2) if the student claims the exemption because the
1-41 student has graduated from an institution of higher education, a
1-42 private or independent institution of higher education, or an
1-43 out-of-state institution of higher education, present to the
1-44 institution of higher education at which the student seeks the
1-45 exemption as evidence of graduation from the other institution a
1-46 diploma or transcript; and
1-47 (3) sign a form stating that the student does not
1-48 intend to enroll on a permanent basis in or receive a certificate
1-49 or degree from the institution of higher education at which the
1-50 student seeks the exemption.
1-51 (s) An exemption under Subsection (q) terminates if the
1-52 student:
1-53 (1) enrolls on a permanent basis in the institution of
1-54 higher education; or
1-55 (2) enrolls in a certificate or degree program at the
1-56 institution of higher education.
1-57 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-58 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-59 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-60 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-61 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-62 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-63 passage, and it is so enacted.
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