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.
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