By Deshotel H.B. No. 2775
77R8785 KEL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an exemption for certain students from the 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(t), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (t) A student is exempt from this section if the student
1-8 graduated from a public high school in this state at least 10 years
1-9 before the date of the student's enrollment at an institution of
1-10 higher education. The institution may require the student to
1-11 successfully complete developmental courses or other developmental
1-12 programs as described by Subsection (f) but may not require the
1-13 student on successful completion of those courses or programs to
1-14 take the test required by this section. The [An] institution may
1-15 exempt a non-degree-seeking or non-certificate-seeking student who
1-16 is not otherwise exempt under this subsection and who will be 55
1-17 years of age or older on the first class day of a term or semester
1-18 from the testing requirements imposed by this section as a
1-19 condition for enrollment at the institution [during that term or
1-20 semester in a course].
1-21 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to
1-22 a student who enrolls at a public institution of higher education
1-23 for a semester or summer session that begins on or after the
1-24 effective date of this Act.
2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-2 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-3 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-4 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-5 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.