By: Powell S.B. No. 2130
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to an exemption from the assessment requirements of the
  Texas Success Initiative for students who achieve certain scores on
  a high school equivalency examination.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 51.338, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
         (h)  A student who has achieved a score set by the board in a
  content area subject to the standards prescribed by the board under
  Section 51.334(b) on a high school equivalency examination
  administered under Section 7.111 is exempt from the requirements of
  this subchapter with respect to that content area.  The
  commissioner of higher education by rule shall establish the period
  for which an exemption under this subsection is valid.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
  beginning with the assessment of entering undergraduate students at
  public institutions of higher education for the 2020 fall semester.  
  The assessment of an entering undergraduate student for an academic
  term before that semester is governed by the law in effect before
  the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
  for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.