Bill Text: TX HB1287 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that each state university's Internet website include a link to certain employment data.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1287 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1287-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1287 |
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relating to a requirement that each state university's Internet | ||
website include a link to certain employment data. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 51.9746 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.9746. INTERNET ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT DATA. (a) In | ||
this section, "general academic teaching institution" and "public | ||
state college" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
(b) Each general academic teaching institution other than a | ||
public state college shall maintain in a prominent location on the | ||
institution's Internet website a link to the Texas Consumer | ||
Resource for Education and Workforce Statistics ("Texas CREWS") | ||
report on gainful employment applicable to the institution for the | ||
most recent year for which that report is available. | ||
SECTION 2. Each general academic teaching institution other | ||
than a public state college shall comply with Section 51.9746, | ||
Education Code, as added by this Act, as soon as practicable | ||
following the effective date of this Act, but not later than | ||
February 1, 2016. | ||
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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1287 was passed by the House on April | ||
23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1287 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |