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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