By: Taylor of Galveston  S.B. No. 2079          (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 28, 2017, read   first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;   May 8, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee   Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 8, 2017, sent   to printer.)     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2079 By:  Menéndez     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" and "public   junior college" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003.          (b)  Each general academic teaching institution and each   public junior college 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 or college shall include on the   transcript the median grade of the letter grades awarded in the   class. The institution or college 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.          SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies   beginning with classes offered in the 2018 spring 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.     * * * * *