1-1  By:  Rodriguez (Senate Sponsor - Luna)                H.B. No. 1338
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995;
    1-3  April 24, 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 testing and remedial education of a student enrolled in
    1-9  a certificate program.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 51.306, Education Code, is amended by
   1-12  amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (s) to read as
   1-13  follows:
   1-14        (b)  All students in the following categories who enter
   1-15  public institutions of higher education <in the fall of 1989 and
   1-16  thereafter> must be tested for reading, writing, and mathematics
   1-17  skills:
   1-18              (1)  all full-time and part-time freshmen enrolled in a
   1-19  <certificate or> degree program;
   1-20              (2)  any other student, prior to the accumulation of
   1-21  nine or more semester credit hours or the equivalent; and
   1-22              (3)  any transfer student with fewer than 60 semester
   1-23  credit hours or the equivalent who has not previously taken the
   1-24  tests.
   1-25        For that purpose, the institution shall use a test instrument
   1-26  prescribed by the board.  The same instrument shall be used at all
   1-27  public institutions of higher education.
   1-28        (s)  This section does not apply to a student enrolled in a
   1-29  certificate program of one year or less.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  Section 51.3061, Education Code, is amended by
   1-31  amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
   1-32  follows:
   1-33        (b)  A deaf student who enrolls at an institution of higher
   1-34  education must take the Stanford Achievement Test, nationally
   1-35  normed on the hearing-impaired population by Gallaudet University,
   1-36  if the student:
   1-37              (1)  is a full-time or part-time freshman enrolled in a
   1-38  <certificate or> degree program that contains nine or more semester
   1-39  credit hours of general education courses or the equivalent of
   1-40  those courses; or
   1-41              (2)  is a transfer student from an institution that is
   1-42  not an institution of higher education, has less than 60 semester
   1-43  credit hours, and has not previously taken the test required by
   1-44  this section.
   1-45        (f)  This section does not apply to a student enrolled in a
   1-46  certificate program of one year or less.
   1-47        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-48  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-49  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-50  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-51  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-52  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-53  passage, and it is so enacted.
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