Bill Text: TX HB2264 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public junior colleges to award course credit to students who hold a Child Development Associate credential.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2264 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2264-Introduced.html
| 88R9662 CXP-D | ||
| By: Talarico | H.B. No. 2264 | |
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| relating to requiring public junior colleges to award course credit | ||
| to students who hold a Child Development Associate credential. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 130.0107 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 130.0107. CREDIT FOR COMPLETION OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT | ||
| ASSOCIATE CREDENTIAL. In accordance with rules adopted by the | ||
| Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, a public junior college | ||
| shall award at least six semester credit hours or the equivalent to | ||
| a student enrolled in the junior college who holds a Child | ||
| Development Associate (CDA) credential. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| academic year. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
