Bill Text: TX HB706 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the course levels offered by the University of Houston--Clear Lake.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-02 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB706 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB706-Comm_Sub.html

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82R3768 KYF-F
By: J. Davis of Harris H.B. No. 706

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the course levels offered by the University of
Houston--Clear Lake.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 111.83, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 111.83. ROLE AND SCOPE. [(a)] The university shall
[be organized to] offer undergraduate [only junior, senior,] and
graduate [graduate-level] programs.
[(b) The university may enroll a student who has
successfully completed at least 30 semester credit hours of course
work at a public or private institution of higher education and who
is concurrently enrolled in another public or private institution
of higher education.]
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
111.83, Education Code, applies beginning with course levels that
may be offered by the University of Houston--Clear Lake for the
2012-2013 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, 2011.