Bill Text: TX HB4092 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB4092 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4092-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB4092 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4092-Introduced.html
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By: Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 4092 |
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relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education | ||
Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer | ||
baccalaureate degree programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 130.0012, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a), (b), (d), (e), (g), and (h) and adding | ||
Subsections (e-1), (f-1), (g-1), and (g-2) to read as follows: | ||
(a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may | ||
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degree programs in the fields of applied science, [ |
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technology, and nursing under this section. Offering a | ||
baccalaureate degree program under this section does not otherwise | ||
alter the role and mission of a public junior college. | ||
(b) The coordinating board: | ||
(1) shall authorize baccalaureate degree programs in | ||
the fields of applied science and applied technology at each public | ||
junior college that previously participated in a pilot project to | ||
offer baccalaureate degree programs; and | ||
(2) may authorize baccalaureate degree programs at one | ||
or more public junior colleges that offer a degree program in the | ||
fields of applied science, applied technology, or nursing and have | ||
demonstrated a workforce need. | ||
(d) A public junior college offering a baccalaureate degree | ||
program under this section may not offer more than three [ |
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baccalaureate degree programs at any time. The degree programs are | ||
subject to the continuing approval of the coordinating board. | ||
(e) In determining whether a public junior college may offer | ||
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(1) apply the same criteria and standards the | ||
coordinating board uses to approve baccalaureate degree programs at | ||
general academic teaching institutions; | ||
(2) consider the following factors: | ||
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programs in the region served by the junior college; | ||
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complement the other programs and course offerings of the junior | ||
college and whether the associate degree program offered by the | ||
junior college in the same field has been successful; | ||
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unnecessarily duplicate the degree programs offered by other | ||
institutions of higher education; and | ||
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support the degree programs with student enrollment [ |
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the adequacy of the junior college's facilities, faculty, | ||
administration, libraries, and other resources, including evidence | ||
provided to the coordinating board and the Texas Board of Nursing | ||
that a public junior college seeking approval of a baccalaureate | ||
degree program in nursing has secured adequate long-term clinical | ||
space; and | ||
(3) ensure the program would not draw faculty employed | ||
by a neighboring institution offering a similar program. | ||
(e-1) A public junior college may offer a baccalaureate | ||
degree program under this section only if its junior college | ||
district had a taxable property valuation amount of not less than | ||
$10 billion in the preceding year. | ||
(f-1) The coordinating board shall establish minimum | ||
admission standards for students enrolling in a baccalaureate | ||
degree program in nursing offered by a public junior college under | ||
this section. | ||
(g) Except as provided by Subsection (g-1), a degree program | ||
created under this section may be funded solely by a public junior | ||
college's proportionate share of state appropriations under | ||
Section 130.003, local funds, and private sources. This subsection | ||
does not require the legislature to appropriate state funds to | ||
support a degree program created under this section. | ||
(g-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (g), in [ |
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recommendations to the legislature relating to state funding for | ||
public junior colleges, the coordinating board shall recommend that | ||
a public junior college that previously participated in a pilot | ||
project to offer baccalaureate degree programs receive | ||
substantially the same state support for junior-level and | ||
senior-level courses in the fields of applied science and applied | ||
technology offered under this section as that provided to a general | ||
academic teaching institution for substantially similar courses. | ||
For purposes of this subsection, in [ |
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hours attributable to students enrolled in a junior-level or | ||
senior-level course in the field of applied science or applied | ||
technology offered under this section used to determine a public | ||
junior college's proportionate share of state appropriations under | ||
Section 130.003, the coordinating board shall weigh those contact | ||
hours as necessary to provide the junior college the appropriate | ||
level of state support to the extent state funds for those courses | ||
are included in the appropriations. This subsection does not | ||
prohibit the legislature from directly appropriating state funds to | ||
support junior-level and senior-level courses to which this | ||
subsection applies [ |
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(g-2) A public junior college may not charge a student | ||
enrolled in a baccalaureate degree program offered under this | ||
section tuition and fees in an amount that exceeds the amount of | ||
tuition and fees charged by the junior college to a similarly | ||
situated student who is enrolled in an associate degree program in a | ||
corresponding field. | ||
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offering a baccalaureate degree program under this section shall | ||
conduct a review of each baccalaureate degree program offered and | ||
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effectiveness of those [ |
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programs. A [ |
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delivered to the coordinating board in the form and at the time | ||
determined by the coordinating board. | ||
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, 2017. |