By Delisi H.B. No. 1645
77R3793 QS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an exemption for certain transfer students from the
1-3 requirements 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 transfer student who has accumulated 60 or more
1-24 semester credit hours at an accredited out-of-state institution of
2-1 higher education authorized to award baccalaureate degrees.
2-2 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to
2-3 a transfer student who enrolls at a public institution of higher
2-4 education for a semester or summer session that begins on or after
2-5 the effective date of this Act.
2-6 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-7 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-8 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-9 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-10 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.