By Rodriguez H.B. No. 1338
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to testing and remedial education of a student enrolled in
1-3 a certificate program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.306, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (s) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (b) All students in the following categories who enter
1-9 public institutions of higher education <in the fall of 1989 and
1-10 thereafter> must be tested for reading, writing, and mathematics
1-11 skills:
1-12 (1) all full-time and part-time freshmen enrolled in a
1-13 <certificate or> degree program;
1-14 (2) any other student, prior to the accumulation of
1-15 nine or more semester credit hours or the equivalent; and
1-16 (3) any transfer student with fewer than 60 semester
1-17 credit hours or the equivalent who has not previously taken the
1-18 tests.
1-19 For that purpose, the institution shall use a test instrument
1-20 prescribed by the board. The same instrument shall be used at all
1-21 public institutions of higher education.
1-22 (s) This section does not apply to a student enrolled in a
1-23 certificate program of one year or less.
1-24 SECTION 2. Section 51.3061, Education Code, is amended by
2-1 amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
2-2 follows:
2-3 (b) A deaf student who enrolls at an institution of higher
2-4 education must take the Stanford Achievement Test, nationally
2-5 normed on the hearing-impaired population by Gallaudet University,
2-6 if the student:
2-7 (1) is a full-time or part-time freshman enrolled in a
2-8 <certificate or> degree program that contains nine or more semester
2-9 credit hours of general education courses or the equivalent of
2-10 those courses; or
2-11 (2) is a transfer student from an institution that is
2-12 not an institution of higher education, has less than 60 semester
2-13 credit hours, and has not previously taken the test required by
2-14 this section.
2-15 (f) This section does not apply to a student enrolled in a
2-16 certificate program of one year or less.
2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.