Bill Text: TX HB753 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the offering of certain high school courses for which students may earn college credit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB753 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB753-Introduced.html
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| By: Gervin-Hawkins | H.B. No. 753 | |
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| relating to the offering of certain high school courses for which | ||
| students may earn college credit. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 28.009, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-6) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-6) A governmental entity or state officer may not | ||
| prohibit a course or any instructional component of a course from | ||
| being offered at a high school if an accredited institution of | ||
| higher education in this state awards course credit in the subject | ||
| for the achievement of a required score on a College-Level | ||
| Examination Program examination, an advanced placement test, or an | ||
| international baccalaureate examination. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| school 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, 2025. | ||
