By: Seliger, et al.  S.B. No. 463
         (In the Senate - Filed January 12, 2017; February 6, 2017,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
  April 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
  Nays 0; April 19, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the use of individual graduation committees to satisfy
  certain public high school graduation requirements.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 12.104(b-2), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b-2)  An open-enrollment charter school is subject to the
  requirement to establish an individual graduation committee under  
  Section 28.0258.  [This subsection expires September 1, 2017.]
         SECTION 2.  Section 28.025(c-6), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (c-6)  Notwithstanding Subsection (c), a person may receive
  a diploma if the person is eligible for a diploma under Section
  28.0258.  [This subsection expires September 1, 2017.]
         SECTION 3.  Effective September 1, 2018, Section 28.0258(e),
  Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (e)  To be eligible to graduate and receive a high school
  diploma under this section, a student must successfully complete
  the curriculum requirements required for high school graduation[:
               [(1)]  identified by the State Board of Education under
  Section 28.025(a)[; or
               [(2)     as otherwise provided by the transition plan
  adopted by the commissioner under Section 28.025(h)].
         SECTION 4.  Section 39.025(a-2), Education Code, as added by
  Chapter 5 (S.B. 149), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2015, is amended to read as follows:
         (a-2)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a student who has
  failed to perform satisfactorily on end-of-course assessment
  instruments in the manner provided under this section may receive a
  high school diploma if the student has qualified for graduation
  under Section 28.0258.  [This subsection expires September 1,
  2017.]
         SECTION 5.  Section 39.025(a-3), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a-3)  A student who, after retaking an end-of-course
  assessment instrument for Algebra I or English II, has failed to
  perform satisfactorily as required by Subsection (a), but who
  receives a score of proficient on the Texas Success Initiative
  (TSI) diagnostic assessment for the corresponding subject for which
  the student failed to perform satisfactorily on the end-of-course
  assessment instrument satisfies the requirement concerning the
  Algebra I or English II end-of-course assessment, as applicable.  
  [This subsection expires September 1, 2017.]
         SECTION 6.  Sections 28.0258(l) and 28.0259(e), Education
  Code, are repealed.
         SECTION 7.  Except as otherwise provided by this Act, 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, 2017.
 
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