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. |