By Ellis S.B. No. 235
76R2572 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to college advanced placement courses and tests.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by
1-5 adding Subsection (l) to read as follows:
1-6 (l) Each school district shall offer at each regular high
1-7 school campus in the district college advanced placement courses in
1-8 mathematics, science, and English language arts if state money is
1-9 expressly appropriated and allocated to school districts for that
1-10 purpose. A district may offer college advanced placement courses
1-11 in addition to those required by this subsection. In this
1-12 subsection, "college advanced placement course" has the meaning
1-13 assigned by Section 28.051.
1-14 SECTION 2. Sections 39.052(b) and (c), Education Code, are
1-15 amended to read as follows:
1-16 (b) The report card shall include the following information
1-17 where applicable:
1-18 (1) the academic excellence indicators adopted under
1-19 Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8);
1-20 (2) student/teacher ratios; [and]
1-21 (3) administrative and instructional costs per
1-22 student; and
1-23 (4) for each regular high school campus, the scores on
1-24 college advanced placement tests as defined by Section 28.051.
2-1 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
2-2 dissemination of appropriate student performance portions of campus
2-3 report cards annually to the parent[, guardian, conservator,] or
2-4 other person having lawful control of each student at the campus.
2-5 The rules must require that the information disseminated include
2-6 the scores on college advanced placement tests, as specified under
2-7 Subsection (b)(4). On written request, the school district shall
2-8 provide a copy of a campus report card to any other party.
2-9 SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
2-10 amended by adding Section 51.309 to read as follows:
2-11 Sec. 51.309. ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSE CREDIT. (a) In this
2-12 section:
2-13 (1) "College advanced placement test" has the meaning
2-14 assigned by Section 28.051.
2-15 (2) "Public junior college" has the meaning assigned
2-16 by Section 61.003.
2-17 (b) Each institution of higher education shall give a
2-18 student who scores a three or higher on a college advanced
2-19 placement test course credit for the course that is the subject of
2-20 the test. Each public junior college shall give the student course
2-21 credit toward an associate's degree for the course that is the
2-22 subject of the test. If the course for which the student is given
2-23 credit under this subsection is a prerequisite for another course,
2-24 the student is considered to have satisfied that prerequisite.
2-25 SECTION 4. (a) Section 28.002(l), Education Code, as added
2-26 by this Act, applies beginning with the 2002-2003 school year.
2-27 (b) Sections 39.052(b) and (c), Education Code, as amended
3-1 by this Act, apply beginning with the campus report card for the
3-2 1999-2000 school year.
3-3 (c) Section 51.309, Education Code, as added by this Act,
3-4 applies only to college advanced placement course credit on the
3-5 basis of a college advanced placement test taken on or after
3-6 September 1, 1999.
3-7 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-13 passage, and it is so enacted.