Bill Text: TX SB1227 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the granting of undergraduate course credit at public institutions of higher education for certain scores on examinations administered through the College-Level Examination Program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1227 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1227-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1227 | ||
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| relating to the granting of undergraduate course credit at public | ||
| institutions of higher education for certain scores on examinations | ||
| administered through the College-Level Examination Program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 51.968, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-2) In establishing the minimum required score on a CLEP | ||
| examination for granting course credit for a particular | ||
| lower-division course under Subsection (c), an institution of | ||
| higher education may not require a score higher than the minimum | ||
| score recommended by the American Council on Education for granting | ||
| course credit for that examination unless the institution's chief | ||
| academic officer determines, based on evidence, that a higher score | ||
| on the examination is necessary to indicate that a student is | ||
| sufficiently prepared to be successful in a related, more advanced | ||
| course for which the lower-division course is a prerequisite. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.968(c-2), Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies to entering freshman students at public | ||
| institutions of higher education beginning with the 2022 spring | ||
| semester. | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1227 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 5, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1227 passed the House on | ||
| May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 5, two present | ||
| not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
