Bill Text: TX HB4766 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 4766 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to payment by a school district of the costs of developmental coursework provided by an institution of higher education under the success initiative.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Public Education [HB4766 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4766-Introduced.html

	88R15357 PRL-F

	By: Dutton	H.B. No. 4766



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to payment by a school district of the costs of
	developmental coursework provided by an institution of higher
	education under the success initiative.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 11.181 to read as follows:
	Sec. 11.181. SCHOOL DISTRICT RESPONSIBILITY FOR CERTAIN
	DEVELOPMENTAL COURSEWORK COSTS. (a) The commissioner shall assign
	to a school district from which a student who is required under
	Section 51.336 to enroll in developmental coursework graduates all
	of the costs of the developmental coursework provided by an
	institution of higher education. The commissioner shall assign the
	costs as provided by the rules adopted under this section and
	Section 51.344.
	(b) The commissioner, in cooperation with the Texas Higher
	Education Coordinating Board, shall adopt rules to facilitate
	assigning costs to school districts for developmental coursework as
	provided under this section. The rules shall be designed to ensure
	fairness, consistency, and fundamental due process.
	SECTION 2. Section 51.344, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
	(e) The board, in cooperation with the commissioner of
	education, shall adopt rules to facilitate assigning costs to
	school districts for developmental coursework as provided under
	Section 11.181. The rules shall be designed to ensure fairness,
	consistency, and fundamental due process.
	SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with courses taken in
	the 2023 fall semester.
	SECTION 4. 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.