Bill Text: TX HB1943 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of transfer pathways in the guidelines addressing transfer practices published by general academic teaching institutions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-22 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1943 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1943-Introduced.html
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By: Ramos | H.B. No. 1943 |
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relating to the inclusion of transfer pathways in the guidelines | ||
addressing transfer practices published by general academic | ||
teaching institutions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.830, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.830. PUBLICATION OF GUIDELINES ADDRESSING TRANSFER | ||
PRACTICES. (a) In the institution's [ |
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the institution's Internet [ |
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higher education shall publish guidelines addressing the practices | ||
of the institution regarding the transfer of course credit. In the | ||
guidelines, the institution must identify a course by using the | ||
common course numbering system approved by the board. | ||
(b) Each general academic teaching institution shall | ||
include in the guidelines published on the institution's Internet | ||
website under Subsection (a) a transfer pathway for each major in | ||
the top 25 majors at the institution for which students most | ||
frequently transfer to the institution. A transfer pathway must | ||
identify: | ||
(1) the lower division course requirements for the | ||
major, including the core curriculum requirements; and | ||
(2) each course that may be transferred to the | ||
institution from a public junior college for course credit applied | ||
toward the major or the core curriculum. | ||
(c) A general academic teaching institution shall annually | ||
review and, if necessary, update each transfer pathway required | ||
under Subsection (b). | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2020, each general | ||
academic teaching institution shall develop and publish the | ||
transfer pathways required under Section 61.830, Education Code, as | ||
amended by this Act. | ||
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, 2019. |