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      S.B. No. 2431         AN ACT   relating to requiring foreign language credit opportunities for   students enrolled in study abroad components or programs offered by   certain institutions of higher education in this state.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 51, Education Code, is   amended by adding Section 51.313 to read as follows:           Sec.   51.313.     STUDY ABROAD: FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY.   (a) In this section, "institution of higher education" has the   meaning assigned by Section 61.003.           (b)     For the purpose of providing the opportunity for   students to gain proficiency in a foreign language, an institution   of higher education that, through any baccalaureate degree program,   offers a study abroad component or program in a location where a   language other than English is primarily spoken shall provide, in   accordance with rules adopted under Subsection (c), an option that   allows a student enrolled in the study abroad component or program   to earn foreign language credit as part of that component or   program.           (c)     The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall   adopt rules as necessary to implement this section, including rules   that:                 (1)     define the study abroad components or programs to   which this section applies; and                 (2)     prescribe the manner in which a student may earn   foreign language credit as part of a component or program described   by Subdivision (1).          SECTION 2.  Section 51.313, Education Code, as added by this   Act, applies beginning with the 2026-2027 academic year.          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. 2431 passed the Senate on   April 24, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1; and that   the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 31, 2025, by the   following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.       ______________________________   Secretary of the Senate                I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2431 passed the House, with   amendment, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 76,   Nays 60, two present not voting.       ______________________________   Chief Clerk of the House            Approved:     ______________________________                Date       ______________________________              Governor