81R25962 JRJ-D

By: Castro H.B. No. 3296

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3296:

By: Castro C.S.H.B. No. 3296

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to alternative developmental education courses under the Texas Success Initiative for institutions of higher education.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 51.3062(i), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(i) The institution of higher education may refer a student to developmental coursework as considered necessary by the institution to address a student's deficiencies in the student's readiness to perform freshman-level academic coursework, except that the institution may not require enrollment in developmental coursework with respect to a student previously determined by any institution of higher education to have met college-readiness standards. An institution of higher education that requires a student to enroll in developmental coursework must offer the student the option of enrolling in developmental coursework in an intensive or compressed course-based format that, to the extent possible, allows the student to enroll in developmental courses without substantially conflicting with other coursework or the student's overall academic progress if under rules of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board the student is determined to be eligible to enroll in developmental courses offered in that format. The coordinating board shall adopt rules prescribing:

(1) student eligibility criteria for enrolling in an intensive or compressed course-based format under this subsection; and

(2) requirements for approving the use of an intensive or compressed course-based format.

SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2009.