Bill Text: TX HB2193 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the authorization by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for South Texas College to offer baccalaureate degree programs.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2193 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2193-Comm_Sub.html

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86R28505 JRJ-F
By: Muñoz, Jr., Guerra H.B. No. 2193
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2193:
By: Pacheco C.S.H.B. No. 2193

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authorization by the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board for South Texas College to offer baccalaureate
degree programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130.306, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(b) Except as otherwise provided by this section
[Subsection (a)], a public junior college offering a baccalaureate
degree program under this subchapter may not offer more than three
baccalaureate degree programs at any time.
(d) At any time, South Texas College may not offer more than
six baccalaureate degree programs under this subchapter.
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, 2019.