Bill Text: TX SB429 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the requirements for a public junior college to receive approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to offer a baccalaureate degree program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-20 - Left pending in subcommittee [SB429 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB429-Introduced.html

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88R493 JRJ-D
By: Middleton S.B. No. 429

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the requirements for a public junior college to receive
approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to
offer a baccalaureate degree program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130.307(b), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) A [Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), a] public
junior college may offer a baccalaureate degree program under this
subchapter only if its junior college district[:
[(1) had a taxable property valuation amount of not
less than $6 billion in the preceding year; and
[(2)] received a positive assessment of the overall
financial health of the district as reported by the coordinating
board.
SECTION 2. Section 130.307(b-1), Education Code, is
repealed.
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, 2023.