By Delisi                                             H.B. No. 2410
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to exempting transfer students from certain requirements
 1-3     of the Texas Academic Skills Program.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 51.306(r), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (r)  This section does not apply to:
 1-8                 (1)  a student who accumulated three or more
 1-9     college-level semester credit hours prior to the 1989 fall
1-10     semester;
1-11                 (2)  a student located outside this state who enrolls
1-12     in a course offered outside this state by an institution of higher
1-13     education;
1-14                 (3)  a deaf student;
1-15                 (4)  a student who has graduated with a baccalaureate
1-16     degree from an institution of higher education, an accredited
1-17     private or independent institution of higher education, or an
1-18     accredited out-of-state institution of higher education;
1-19                 (5)  a student enrolled in a certificate program at a
1-20     community or technical college of one year or less; [or]
1-21                 (6)  a student who is a citizen of a country other than
1-22     the United States and is not seeking a degree; or
1-23                 (7)  a student who transfers to an institution of
1-24     higher education and who has previously completed 12 or more
 2-1     semester credit hours of courses in the core curriculum, as
 2-2     described by Section 61.822, with a cumulative grade point average
 2-3     of at least 2.25 on a scale of 4.0 in those courses.
 2-4           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.