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89(R) SB 1191 - Enrolled version - Bill Text
S.B. No. 1191
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:
(1)
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
not included in the Workforce Education Course Manual or its
successor adopted by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board;
and
(2)
the amount of additional weight to be given to a
dual credit course described by Subdivision (1) to be different
from the amount of additional weight to be given to a dual credit
course included in the Workforce Education Course Manual or its
successor adopted by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
(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.
______________________________
______________________________
President of the Senate
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1191 passed the Senate on
April 16, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 30, 2025, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1191 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 130,
Nays 6, one present not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
______________________________
Date
______________________________
Governor