Bill Text: TX HB3286 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that developmental coursework required for entering undergraduate students at four-year public institutions of higher education be completed at a public junior college.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-18 - Referred to Higher Education [HB3286 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3286-Introduced.html
82R8101 JRJ-D | ||
By: Guillen | H.B. No. 3286 |
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relating to a requirement that developmental coursework required | ||
for entering undergraduate students at four-year public | ||
institutions of higher education be completed at a public junior | ||
college. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.3062, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (i-2) and amending Subsections (l) and (m) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(i-2) A general academic teaching institution that refers a | ||
student to developmental coursework under Subsection (i) must | ||
require the student, before enrolling in any coursework at the | ||
institution, to complete the developmental coursework at a public | ||
junior college rather than at the institution. If the student was | ||
admitted to the general academic teaching institution under | ||
Subchapter U, the student is eligible to enroll in the institution | ||
when the student successfully completes the developmental | ||
coursework. | ||
(l) The legislature shall appropriate money to public | ||
junior colleges, public technical institutes, and public state | ||
colleges for approved non-degree-credit developmental courses, | ||
except that legislative appropriations may not be used for | ||
developmental coursework taken by a student in excess of[ |
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(m) The board may develop formulas to supplement the funding | ||
of developmental academic programs by institutions of higher | ||
education other than general academic teaching institutions, | ||
including formulas for supplementing the funding of | ||
non-course-based programs. The board may develop a performance | ||
funding formula by which those institutions may receive additional | ||
funding for each student who completes the Success Initiative | ||
established under this section and then successfully completes | ||
college coursework. The legislature may appropriate the money | ||
required to provide the additional funding under those formulas. | ||
SECTION 2. A general academic teaching institution shall | ||
transfer to the applicable public junior college any funding | ||
received by the institution in the state fiscal biennium ending | ||
August 31, 2013, for services rendered by the public junior college | ||
under Section 51.3062(i-2), Education Code, as added by this Act, | ||
to a student enrolled in the general academic teaching institution. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies | ||
beginning with entering undergraduate students at general academic | ||
teaching institutions for the 2012 fall semester. A student who | ||
enters a general academic teaching institution before the 2012 fall | ||
semester is covered by the law in effect immediately before the | ||
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |