Bill Text: TX HB973 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB973 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB973-Comm_Sub.html
85R5297 JRJ-D | ||
By: Roberts, Keough, Walle, Alvarado, | H.B. No. 973 | |
Thompson of Harris, et al. |
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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 | ||
adding Subsections (b-4) and (g-1) and amending Subsection (g) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b-4) The coordinating board shall authorize a public | ||
junior college with a service area located wholly or partly in a | ||
county with a population of more than three million to offer a | ||
baccalaureate degree program in the field of applied technology. A | ||
degree program authorized under this subsection may be offered | ||
under an articulation agreement as provided by Section 29.908 with | ||
an early college education program located in the service area of | ||
the public junior college. | ||
(g) Except as provided by Subsection (g-1), 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 receive substantially the same state | ||
support for junior-level and senior-level courses offered under | ||
this section as that provided to a general academic teaching | ||
institution for substantially similar courses. In determining the | ||
contact hours attributable to students enrolled in a junior-level | ||
or senior-level course 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 offered under this section. | ||
(g-1) A degree program created under Subsection (b-4) may be | ||
funded only 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 Subsection (b-4). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |