Amend CSHB 2330 as follows:
(1) On page 2, line 2, strike "A" and substitute "Beginning
with admissions for the 2008-2009 academic year, a".
(2) On page 2, line 3, strike "50" and substitute "95".
(3) On page 2, line 15, between "advanced" and "high", insert
"or recommended".
(4) On page 4, line 2, between "advanced" and "high", insert
"or recommended".
(5) Strike SECTION 3 of the bill (page 4, lines 3-7).
(6) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the
bill and renumber the other SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION___. Sections 28.025(e) and (g), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(e) Each school district shall report the academic
achievement record of a student in an electronic format [students
who have completed a minimum, recommended, or advanced high school
program] on a uniform transcript form [forms] adopted by the State
Board of Education. The transcript form [forms] adopted by the
board must be designed to:
(1) clearly differentiate between [each of] the
minimum, recommended, and advanced high school programs and
identify the program completed by a student;
(2) provide information in a standard format
regarding:
(A) any honors, advanced placement, or
international baccalaureate courses available at a student's high
school and which, if any, of those courses the student completed;
and
(B) any college-level courses available to a
student under a dual credit program provided under an agreement
between the student's high school and an institution of higher
education and which, if any, of those courses the student
completed; and
(3) identify whether a student received a diploma or a
certificate of coursework completion.
(g) If a student, other than a student permitted to take
courses under the minimum high school program as provided by
Subsection (b), is unable to complete the recommended or advanced
high school program solely because necessary courses were
unavailable to the student at the appropriate times in the
student's high school career as a result of course scheduling, lack
of enrollment capacity, or another cause not within the student's
control, the school district, [shall indicate that fact] on the
student's transcript form described by Subsection (e), shall:
(1) indicate whether the student completed those
courses necessary to complete the program that were available to
the student; and
(2) identify those courses necessary to complete the
program that were unavailable to the student as a result of course
scheduling, lack of enrollment capacity, or another cause not
within the student's control.
SECTION___. Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 28.0252 to read as follows:
Sec. 28.0252. COMPUTATION OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADE POINT AVERAGE.
(a) The commissioner shall develop a standard method of computing a
student's high school grade point average that provides for
additional weight to be given to each honors course, advanced
placement course, international baccalaureate course, or dual
credit course described by Section 28.025(e)(2)(B) completed by a
student.
(b) A school district shall use the standard method
developed under this section to compute a student's high school
grade point average, and the student's grade point average computed
in that manner shall be used in determining the student's
eligibility for automatic college admission under Section 51.803.
(b-1) Subsection (b) applies only to students entering grade
nine during or after the 2007-2008 school year. This subsection
expires September 1, 2010.
(c) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement
this section.
SECTION ____. Section 28.026, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 28.026. NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC COLLEGE ADMISSION. (a) The
board of trustees of a school district shall require each high
school in the district to post appropriate signs in each
counselor's office, in each principal's office, and in each
administrative building indicating the substance of Section 51.803
regarding automatic college admission. To assist in the
dissemination of this information, the school district shall:
(1) require that each high school counselor and class
advisor be provided a detailed explanation of the substance of
Section 51.803;
(2) provide each district student, at the time the
student first registers for one or more classes required for high
school graduation, with a written notification of the substance of
Section 51.803;
(3) require that each high school counselor and senior
class advisor explain to eligible students the substance of Section
51.803; and
(4) [(3)] provide each eligible senior student under
Section 51.803, at the commencement of a class's senior year, with a
written notification of the student's eligibility with a detailed
explanation of the substance of Section 51.803.
(b) The commissioner shall adopt forms to use in providing
notice under Subsections (a)(2) and (4). In providing notice under
Subsection (a)(2) or (4), a school district shall use the
appropriate form adopted by the commissioner.
(c) The commissioner shall adopt procedures to ensure that,
as soon as practicable after this subsection becomes law, each
school district provides written notification of the substance of
Section 51.803, as amended by the 79th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2005, to each district student who, for the 2005-2006
school year, registers for the first time for one or more courses
required for high school graduation. The commissioner may adopt
rules under this subsection in the manner provided by law for
emergency rules. Each district shall comply with the procedures
adopted by the commissioner under this subsection. This subsection
expires September 1, 2006.