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	Amend CSSB 1231 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered new SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent 
SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 51.907 to read as follows:
	Sec. 51.907.  LIMITATIONS ON NUMBER OF COURSES THAT MAY BE 
DROPPED UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.  (a)  In this section, 
"governing board" and "institution of higher education" have the 
meanings assigned by Section 61.003.
	(b)  This section applies only to an undergraduate student 
who drops a course at an institution of higher education and only 
if:
		(1)  the student was able to drop the course without 
receiving a grade or incurring an academic penalty;
		(2)  the student's transcript indicates or will 
indicate that the student was enrolled in the course; and
		(3)  the student is not dropping the course in order to 
withdraw from the institution.
	(c)  Except as provided under rules adopted under Subsection 
(d), an institution of higher education may not permit a student to 
drop more than six courses, including any course a transfer student 
has dropped at another institution of higher education, under 
circumstances described by Subsection (b).
	(d)  The governing board of an institution of higher 
education may adopt a policy under which the maximum number of 
courses a student is permitted to drop under circumstances 
described by Subsection (b) is less than the maximum number of 
courses that a student may drop under Subsection (c).
	(e)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall 
adopt rules under which an institution of higher education shall 
permit a student to drop more courses under circumstances described 
by Subsection (b) than the number of courses permitted to be dropped 
under Subsection (c) or under a policy adopted under Subsection (d) 
if the student shows good cause for  dropping more than that number, 
including a showing of:
		(1)  a severe illness or other debilitating condition 
that affects the student's ability to satisfactorily complete a 
course;
		(2)  the student's responsibility for the care of a 
sick, injured, or needy person if the provision of care affects the 
student's ability to satisfactorily complete a course;
		(3)  the death of a person who:                                        
			(A)  is considered to be a member of the student's 
family under a rule adopted under this subsection for purposes of 
this subdivision; or
			(B)  is otherwise considered to have a 
sufficiently close relationship to the student under a rule adopted 
under this subsection that the person's death is considered to be a 
showing of good cause; or
		(4)  the active duty service as a member of the Texas 
National Guard or the armed forces of the United States of:
			(A)  the student; or                                                  
			(B)  a person who is considered to be a member of 
the student's family under a rule adopted under this subsection for 
purposes of this subdivision.
	(f)  In determining the number of courses dropped by a 
student for purposes of this section, a course, such as a laboratory 
or discussion course, in which a student is enrolled concurrently 
with a lecture course is not considered to be a course separate from 
the lecture course if:
		(1)  concurrent enrollment in both courses is required; 
and          
		(2)  in dropping the lecture course, the student would 
be required to drop the laboratory, discussion, or other course in 
which the student is concurrently enrolled.
	SECTION ____.  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 
shall adopt the rules required by Section 51.907(e), Education 
Code, as added by this Act, relating to permitting a student who 
shows good cause to drop more than a specified number of courses, as 
soon as practicable after this Act takes effect.  For that purpose, 
the coordinating board may adopt the initial rules in the manner 
provided by law for emergency rules.
	SECTION ____.  Section 51.907, Education Code, as added by 
this Act, applies only to the number of courses that may be dropped 
by a student who beginning with the 2007 fall semester enrolls in a 
public institution of higher education as a first-time freshman.