By: Taylor of Collin S.B. No. 2079               A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to a requirement that a student's postsecondary transcript   include the average or median grade awarded in each class.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is   amended by adding Section 51.979 to read as follows:          Sec. 51.979.  TRANSPARENCY IN STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS.  (a)  In   this section, "general academic teaching institution" has the   meaning assigned by Section 61.003.          (b)  Each general academic teaching institution shall   include on a student's transcript, for each class attempted by the   student, the average grade that was awarded to all students in the   class.  For a class for which letter grades are awarded, the   institution shall include on the transcript the median grade that   was awarded to all students in the class.  The institution shall   place the average or median grade, as applicable, immediately to   the right of the student's individual grade.          (c)  Subsection (b) does not apply to a class:                (1)  offered to students solely on a pass-fail basis or   for independent study credit; or                (2)  in which grades are reported for 10 students or   fewer.          (d)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall   adopt rules to administer this section.          SECTION 2.  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board   shall adopt the rules required by Section 51.979, Education Code,   as added by this Act, as soon as practicable after this Act takes   effect.  For that purpose, the coordinating board may adopt the   initial rules in the manner provided by law for emergency rules.          SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies   beginning with the 2017 fall semester.          SECTION 4.  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.