Bill Text: TX HB123 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 123 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to excess undergraduate credit hours at public institutions of higher education.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-25 - Left pending in committee [HB123 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB123-Introduced.html

	84R788 JRJ-D

	By: Fletcher	H.B. No. 123



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to excess undergraduate credit hours at public
	institutions of higher education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 61.0595(d), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(d) The following are not counted for purposes of
	determining whether the student has previously earned the number of
	semester credit hours specified by Subsection (a):
	(1) semester credit hours earned by the student before
	receiving a baccalaureate degree that has previously been awarded
	to the student;
	(2) semester credit hours earned by the student by
	examination or under any other procedure by which credit is earned
	without registering for a course for which tuition is charged;
	(3) credit for a remedial education course, a
	technical course, a workforce education course funded according to
	contact hours, or another course that does not count toward a degree
	program at the institution;
	(4) semester credit hours earned by the student at a
	private institution or an out-of-state institution; [~~and~~]
	(5) semester credit hours earned by the student before
	graduating from high school and used to satisfy high school
	graduation requirements; and
	(6) not more than 20 semester credit hours earned by
	the student in working toward an associate's degree awarded to the
	student that do not count toward the baccalaureate degree program
	in which the student is enrolled.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
	61.0595, Education Code, applies beginning with the funding
	recommendations made under Section 61.059, Education Code, for the
	2017-2018 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, 2015.