By Kamel H.B. No. 2432 75R6791 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to exempting certain students from the Texas Academic 1-3 Skills Program testing. 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 adding Subsection (l) to read as follows: 1-7 (l) A student is exempt from this section if the student: 1-8 (1) on four separate occasions has had a score on the 1-9 test instrument that was below the minimum performance standards 1-10 established under Subsection (e); 1-11 (2) has completed any remediation course or program 1-12 required by any institution the student has attended; 1-13 (3) has completed all college courses with at least a 1-14 "C" average or its equivalent and has repeated any course in which 1-15 the student received a failing grade and has obtained at least a 1-16 "C" or its equivalent in each of those courses; and 1-17 (4) has completed 60 or more semester credit hours and 1-18 has obtained a grade point average of at least 2.75 on a scale of 1-19 4.0 or its equivalent. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.