Bill Text: TX HB4523 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the period for which an applicant for admission as an undergraduate student to a public institution of higher education is entitled to an academic fresh start.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Higher Education [HB4523 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4523-Introduced.html
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By: Howard | H.B. No. 4523 |
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relating to the period for which an applicant for admission as an | ||
undergraduate student to a public institution of higher education | ||
is entitled to an academic fresh start. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.931(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) If an applicant elects to seek admission under this | ||
section, a public institution of higher education: | ||
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by the applicant five [ |
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starting date of the semester in which the applicant seeks to | ||
enroll; and | ||
(2) if the institution enrolls the applicant as a | ||
student, shall award the applicant academic credit for a number of | ||
semester credit hours or the equivalent equal to the lesser of: | ||
(A) the number of semester credit hours or the | ||
equivalent earned by the applicant during the period described by | ||
Subdivision (1); or | ||
(B) six semester credit hours or the | ||
equivalent. [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 61.0595(c), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) For a student enrolled in a baccalaureate program under | ||
Section 51.931, semester credit hours earned by the student five | ||
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program under Section 51.931 are not counted for purposes of | ||
determining whether the student has previously earned the number of | ||
semester credit hours specified by Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 3. Section 51.931(c), Education Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies beginning with admissions to a public institution | ||
of higher education for the 2023 fall semester. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 61.0595(c), Education Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, applies beginning with funding recommendations made | ||
under Section 61.059, Education Code, for the state fiscal biennium | ||
beginning September 1, 2025, for semester credit hours earned by | ||
students enrolling in a baccalaureate degree program at a public | ||
institution of higher education under Section 51.931, Education | ||
Code, as added by this Act, for the 2023 fall semester or a | ||
subsequent semester or term. Funding recommendations for semester | ||
credit hours earned by a student who enrolled in a baccalaureate | ||
degree program at a public institution of higher education under | ||
Section 51.931, Education Code, as amended by this Act, before the | ||
2023 fall semester are governed by the law in effect immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. 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, 2023. |