Bill Text: TX HB2156 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the creation by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board of a repository of student transcripts for certain private postsecondary educational institutions; authorizing fees and providing administrative penalties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-05 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2156 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2156-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Rodriguez of Bexar | H.B. No. 2156 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2156: | |||
| By: Lozano | C.S.H.B. No. 2156 | ||
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| relating to the creation by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
| Board of a repository of student transcripts for certain private | ||
| postsecondary educational institutions; authorizing fees and | ||
| providing administrative penalties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 61.315, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.315. AGENTS AND RECORDS; TRANSCRIPT REPOSITORY FOR | ||
| CERTAIN CLOSED INSTITUTIONS AND RELATED FEES. (a) The authorized | ||
| or certified institutions may be required to furnish a list of their | ||
| agents to the board, and to maintain records of students enrolled, | ||
| credits awarded, and degrees awarded in a manner specified by the | ||
| board. | ||
| (b) The board shall maintain a repository for student | ||
| transcripts from closed institutions that were issued a certificate | ||
| of authority under Section 61.306 or a certificate of authorization | ||
| under Section 61.303. The board may charge a fee to students | ||
| requesting transcript copies maintained in the repository, not to | ||
| exceed the cost of retrieving, reproducing, and sending the | ||
| transcript copies. | ||
| (c) An institution that was issued a certificate of | ||
| authority under Section 61.306 or a certificate of authorization | ||
| under Section 61.303 shall provide its student transcript records | ||
| to the board in the format specified by the board for inclusion in | ||
| the repository at least biennially and on or immediately before the | ||
| date of closing. | ||
| (d) The board may adopt rules for the administration of this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 61.316, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (e-2) Any institution that was issued a certificate of | ||
| authority under Section 61.306 or a certificate of authorization | ||
| under Section 61.303 that fails to provide student transcript | ||
| records to the board as required under Section 61.315 shall be | ||
| assessed an administrative penalty of not less than $100 or more | ||
| than $500 for each student whose transcript was not provided. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
