The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (Coordinating Board) adopts amendments to Chapter 13, Subchapter F, §13.104 and §13.105, concerning exemptions for excess hours and limitation on formula funding for repeated hours for attempted courses (Senate Bill 1782, 85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session), without changes to the proposed text as published in the October 27, 2017, issue of the Texas Register (42 TexReg 5976).

With the passage of Senate Bill (SB) 1782, 85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, the types of hours exempt from the excess hours rule were changed to include 15 semester credit hours (SCH) earned by a student toward a degree if the student had reenrolled with at least a 24-month break in attendance at any public institution of higher education and had successfully completed at least 50 SCH before the break in enrollment.

Prior to the passage of SB 1782, if a student reattempted the same or similar course two or more times, those SCH could not be submitted for formula funding. With the passage of SB 1782, a student could get an additional attempt (three in total) and the institution could submit the hours for formula funding if the student had reenrolled with at least a 24-month break in attendance at any public institution of higher education and had successfully completed at least 50 SCH before the break in enrollment.

There were no comments received regarding the amendments to these sections.

The amendments are adopted under the Texas Education Code, §51.340, which gives the Coordinating Board the authority to adopt rules concerning definitions and formula funding for excess hours of developmental courses and interventions.