Bill Text: TX HB4251 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to requiring prior approval by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to offer a degree or certificate program to certain persons who are incarcerated or subject to involuntary civil commitment.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-08 - Received from the House [HB4251 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4251-Engrossed.html
| By: Cook, Garcia, Walle | H.B. No. 4251 | |
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| relating to requiring prior approval by the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board to offer a degree or certificate program to | ||
| certain persons who are incarcerated or subject to involuntary | ||
| civil commitment. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.05123 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.05123. BOARD APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR ACADEMIC | ||
| PROGRAMS OFFERED TO CERTAIN STUDENTS WHO ARE INCARCERATED OR | ||
| SUBJECT TO INVOLUNTARY CIVIL COMMITMENT. (a) In this section, | ||
| "penal institution" has the meaning assigned by Article 62.001, | ||
| Code of Criminal Procedure. | ||
| (b) An entity that seeks to offer a degree or certificate | ||
| program to a person confined in a penal institution or required to | ||
| reside in a facility operated by or under contract with the Texas | ||
| Civil Commitment Office under Chapter 841, Health and Safety Code, | ||
| must obtain the board's prior approval to offer the program if | ||
| enrollment in the program would make the person eligible to receive | ||
| a grant under the federal Pell Grant program. | ||
| (c) The board may adopt rules necessary to implement this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 61.05123, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with degree and certificate programs | ||
| offered for the 2023-2024 academic year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2023. | ||
