Bill Text: TX HB1566 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the requirements for a junior college district to receive approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to offer baccalaureate degree programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-08 - Referred to Higher Education [HB1566 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1566-Introduced.html
87R38 JRJ-D | ||
By: Middleton | H.B. No. 1566 |
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relating to the requirements for a junior college district to | ||
receive approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
to offer baccalaureate degree programs. | ||
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 public junior college may offer a baccalaureate degree | ||
program under this subchapter only if its junior college district[ |
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financial health of the district as reported by the coordinating | ||
board. | ||
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, 2021. |