Bill Text: TX HB3498 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the development of transfer associate degree programs to facilitate the transfer of students from public junior colleges to general academic teaching institutions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-18 - Referred to Higher Education [HB3498 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3498-Introduced.html
By: González | H.B. No. 3498 |
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relating to the development of transfer associate degree programs | ||
to facilitate the transfer of students from public junior colleges | ||
to general academic teaching institutions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 61.05125 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.05125. TRANSFER ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAMS. (a) The | ||
board, in collaboration with public junior colleges and general | ||
academic teaching institutions, shall: | ||
(1) develop and approve transfer associate degree | ||
programs to be offered by public junior colleges in a variety of | ||
fields reflecting the diversity of degree programs offered by | ||
general academic teaching institutions; and | ||
(2) subject to admissions space availability, require | ||
each general academic teaching institution to offer any applicant | ||
for transfer admission to the institution who successfully | ||
completed a transfer associate degree program under Subdivision | ||
(1): | ||
(A) priority consideration in admission to the | ||
institution as a junior-level transfer student with academic credit | ||
for the semester credit hours of course work completed by the | ||
student under the transfer associate degree program; and | ||
(B) priority consideration in admission to a | ||
specific college or degree program at the institution that is | ||
related to the student's associate degree field. | ||
(b) Each transfer associate degree program approved by the | ||
board under this section must require a student to successfully | ||
complete 60 semester credit hours of academic course work at a | ||
public junior college, including the public junior college's core | ||
curriculum adopted under Section 61.822(b), with a cumulative grade | ||
point average of at least 2.0 on a four-point scale or the | ||
equivalent. | ||
SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
shall develop and approve transfer associate degree programs under | ||
Section 61.05125, Education Code, as added by this Act, as soon as | ||
practicable following the effective date of this Act, but not later | ||
than January 31, 2016. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |