Bill Text: TX HB1351 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding the initiation, consolidation, or elimination of a degree or certificate program offered by a public institution of higher education.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-27 - Left pending in committee [HB1351 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1351-Introduced.html
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By: Nevarez | H.B. No. 1351 |
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relating to the authority of the Texas Higher Education | ||
Coordinating Board regarding the initiation, consolidation, or | ||
elimination of a degree or certificate program offered by a public | ||
institution of higher education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.051, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (e-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(e) The board shall review periodically the role and mission | ||
statements, the table of programs, and all degree and certificate | ||
programs offered by the public institutions of higher education to | ||
assure that they meet the present and future needs of the state and | ||
the counties in which they are located. The board's review shall be | ||
performed at least every four years and shall involve the | ||
chairperson of the institution's board of regents. The board shall | ||
also order the initiation[ |
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degree or certificate program if the board determines [ |
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excellence by a concentration of available resources. No new | ||
department, school, degree program, or certificate program may be | ||
added at any public institution of higher education except with | ||
specific prior approval of the board. The board may recommend that | ||
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inconsistent with the role and mission of the institution if the | ||
program was in existence on September 1, 1987, and the board | ||
determines that continuation of the program is warranted. | ||
(e-1) The board may not order the consolidation or | ||
elimination of any degree or certificate program offered by an | ||
institution of higher education but may make recommendations to the | ||
institution for that action if the board determines that action | ||
satisfies the criteria prescribed by Subsection (e) for ordering | ||
the initiation of a program. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2013. |