By: Creighton, West S.B. No. 1191

(In the Senate - Filed February 10, 2025; February 28, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Education K-16; April 7, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 7, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1191 By: Hinojosa of Nueces

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the development of a standard method of computing a student's high school grade point average.

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

SECTION 1. Sections 28.0252(a) and (b), Education Code, are amended to read as follows:

(a) The commissioner shall [may] 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, OnRamps dual enrollment course, or dual credit course completed by a student. The method must provide for an equal amount of additional weight to be given to an advanced placement course, an international baccalaureate course, an OnRamps dual enrollment course, and a dual credit course.

(b) A [If the commissioner develops a standard method under this section, a] school district shall use the standard method developed by the commissioner under Subsection (a) to compute a student's high school grade point average.

SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, the commissioner of education shall develop a standard method of computing a student's high school grade point average as required by Section 28.0252(a), Education Code, as amended by this Act.

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, 2025.

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