Bill Text: TX HB3709 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to curriculum requirements in American and Texas history at institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-22 - Referred to Higher Education [HB3709 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3709-Introduced.html
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| By: Capriglione | H.B. No. 3709 | |
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| relating to curriculum requirements in American and Texas history | ||
| at institutions of higher education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 51.302(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a college or | ||
| university receiving state support or state aid from public funds | ||
| may not grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic | ||
| certificate to any person unless the person has credit for six | ||
| semester hours or its equivalent from survey courses in American | ||
| History. A student is entitled to submit as much as three semester | ||
| hours of credit or its equivalent from survey courses in Texas | ||
| History in partial satisfaction of this requirement. The college | ||
| or university may determine that a student has satisfied this | ||
| requirement in whole or part on the basis of credit granted to the | ||
| student by the college or university for a substantially equivalent | ||
| survey course completed at another accredited college or | ||
| university, or on the basis of the student's successful completion | ||
| of an advanced standing examination administered on the conditions | ||
| and under the circumstances common for the college or university's | ||
| advanced standing examinations. The college or university may | ||
| grant as much as three semester hours of credit or its equivalent | ||
| toward satisfaction of this requirement for substantially | ||
| equivalent work completed by a student in the program of an approved | ||
| senior R.O.T.C. unit. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| the curriculum requirements established for a degree or certificate | ||
| program offered by an institution of higher education beginning | ||
| with undergraduate students who initially enroll in the institution | ||
| for the 2022 fall semester. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
