Bill Text: TX HB1142 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1142 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of transfer pathways in the guidelines addressing transfer practices published by general academic teaching institutions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-04 - Referred to Higher Education [HB1142 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1142-Introduced.html

	87R5530 KJE-D

	By: Ramos	H.B. No. 1142



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the inclusion of transfer pathways in the guidelines
	addressing transfer practices published by general academic
	teaching institutions.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 61.830, Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 61.830. PUBLICATION OF GUIDELINES ADDRESSING TRANSFER
	PRACTICES. (a) In the institution's [~~its~~] course catalogs and on
	the institution's Internet [~~its~~] website, each institution of
	higher education shall publish guidelines addressing the practices
	of the institution regarding the transfer of course credit. In the
	guidelines, the institution must identify a course by using the
	common course numbering system approved by the board.
	(b) Each general academic teaching institution shall
	include in the guidelines published on the institution's Internet
	website under Subsection (a) a transfer pathway for each major in
	the top 25 majors at the institution for which students most
	frequently transfer to the institution. A transfer pathway must
	identify:
	(1) the lower division course requirements for the
	major, including the core curriculum requirements; and
	(2) for each public junior college with a service area
	located wholly or partly in a county in which the institution is
	located, each course that may be transferred to the institution
	from the college for course credit applied toward the major or core
	curriculum, listed by the course name and number used by the
	college.
	(c) A general academic teaching institution shall annually
	review and, if necessary, update each transfer pathway required
	under Subsection (b).
	SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2022, each general
	academic teaching institution shall develop and publish the
	transfer pathways required under Section 61.830, Education Code, as
	amended by this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.