Bill Text: TX HB1705 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to curriculum requirements in American history at institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-06 - Referred to Higher Education [HB1705 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1705-Introduced.html
By: Johnson of Harris | H.B. No. 1705 |
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relating to curriculum requirements in American history at | ||
institutions of higher education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.302(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a college or | ||
university receiving state support or state aid from public funds | ||
may not grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic | ||
certificate to any person unless the person has credit for six | ||
semester hours or its equivalent in American history [ |
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student must [ |
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hours of credit or its equivalent from a course providing a | ||
comprehensive survey of American history or [ |
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remaining three semester hours of credit or its equivalent may be | ||
satisfied by credit from any American history or Texas history | ||
course. The college or university may determine that a student has | ||
satisfied this requirement in whole or part on the basis of credit | ||
granted to the student by the college or university for a | ||
substantially equivalent course completed at another accredited | ||
college or university, or on the basis of the student's successful | ||
completion of an advanced standing examination administered on the | ||
conditions and under the circumstances common for the college or | ||
university's advanced standing examinations. The college or | ||
university may grant as much as three semester hours of credit or | ||
its equivalent toward satisfaction of this requirement for | ||
substantially equivalent work completed by a student in the program | ||
of an approved senior R.O.T.C. unit. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
the curriculum requirements established for a degree or certificate | ||
program offered by an institution of higher education beginning | ||
with undergraduate students who initially enroll in the institution | ||
for the 2018 fall semester. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |