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.