Bill Text: TX HB992 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

Bill Title: Relating to excess undergraduate credit hours at public institutions of higher education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2011-06-17 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB992 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB992-Comm_Sub.html

---

By: Castro (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 992
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 2011;
April 26, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 21, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
May 21, 2011, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 992 By: Zaffirini

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to excess undergraduate credit hours at public
institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.907, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) An institution of higher education shall provide
written notice to each undergraduate student of the provisions of
this section before the end of the first semester in which the
student is enrolled in the institution. The notice required by this
subsection may be delivered by electronic mail or other method of
written communication, as determined by the institution.
SECTION 2. Section 61.0595(d), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d) The following are not counted for purposes of
determining whether the student has previously earned the number of
semester credit hours specified by Subsection (a):
(1) semester credit hours earned by the student before
receiving a baccalaureate degree that has previously been awarded
to the student;
(2) semester credit hours earned by the student by
examination or under any other procedure by which credit is earned
without registering for a course for which tuition is charged;
(3) credit for a remedial education course, a
technical course, a workforce education course funded according to
contact hours, or another course that does not count toward a degree
program at the institution;
(4) semester credit hours earned by the student at a
private institution or an out-of-state institution; [and]
(5) semester credit hours earned by the student before
graduating from high school and used to satisfy high school
graduation requirements; and
(6) semester credit hours earned by the student before
receiving an associate degree that has been previously awarded to
the student in excess of the number of semester credit hours
required for the completion of that degree.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section
61.0595, Education Code, applies beginning with the funding
recommendations made under Section 61.059, Education Code, for the
2013-2014 academic year.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act to Section
51.907, Education Code, applies beginning with the fall 2011
semester.
SECTION 5. 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.
* * * * *