Bill Text: TX HB3721 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to formula funding for certain semester credit hours earned for dual course credit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Higher Education [HB3721 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3721-Introduced.html
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By: Patrick | H.B. No. 3721 |
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relating to formula funding for certain semester credit hours | ||
earned for dual course credit. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.059, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (p) to read as follows: | ||
(p) In its instruction and operations formula applicable to | ||
an institution of higher education, the board shall include any | ||
semester credit hours earned for dual course credit at the | ||
institution through any of the following: | ||
(1) a course in the core curriculum; | ||
(2) a career and technical education course that is | ||
taught as part of a multicourse sequence with at least two other | ||
career and technical education courses; and | ||
(3) a foreign language course. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2011. |