Bill Text: TX SB1091 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to limitations on courses that may be offered for dual credit by school districts and public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1091 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1091-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to limitations on courses that may be offered for dual credit by school districts and public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1091 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1091-Comm_Sub.html
By: Seliger | S.B. No. 1091 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2017; March 7, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
March 15, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, | ||
Nays 0; March 15, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to limitations on courses that may be offered for dual | ||
credit by school districts and public institutions of higher | ||
education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.009, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (a-4) and (a-5) to read as follows: | ||
(a-4) A dual credit course offered under this section must | ||
be: | ||
(1) in the core curriculum of the public institution | ||
of higher education providing college credit; | ||
(2) a career and technical education course; or | ||
(3) a foreign language course. | ||
(a-5) Subsection (a-4) does not apply to a dual credit | ||
course offered as part of the early college education program | ||
established under Section 29.908. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 51.968, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsections (d) and | ||
(d-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b) Each institution of higher education that offers | ||
freshman-level courses shall adopt and implement a policy to grant | ||
undergraduate course credit to entering freshman students who have: | ||
(1) successfully completed the International | ||
Baccalaureate Diploma Program; | ||
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more examinations in the Advanced Placement Program or the | ||
College-Level Examination Program;[ |
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(c) In the policy, the institution shall: | ||
(1) establish the institution's conditions for | ||
granting course credit, including the minimum required scores on | ||
CLEP examinations, Advanced Placement examinations, and | ||
examinations for courses constituting the International | ||
Baccalaureate Diploma Program; and | ||
(2) based on the correlations identified under | ||
Subsection (f), identify the specific course credit or other | ||
academic requirements of the institution, including the number of | ||
semester credit hours or other course credit, that the institution | ||
will grant to a student who: | ||
(A) successfully completes the diploma program; | ||
(B) achieves required scores on CLEP | ||
examinations or Advanced Placement examinations; or | ||
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(d) The policy adopted by an institution of higher education | ||
under Subsection (b) must provide that the institution may grant | ||
undergraduate course credit for a dual credit course only if the | ||
course is: | ||
(1) in the core curriculum of the institution of | ||
higher education that offered the course; | ||
(2) a career and technical education course; or | ||
(3) a foreign language course. | ||
(d-1) Subsection (d) does not apply to a dual credit course | ||
completed by a student as part of the early college education | ||
program established under Section 29.908. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A course offered for joint high school and junior | ||
college credit under this section must be: | ||
(1) in the core curriculum of the public junior | ||
college; | ||
(2) a career and technical education course; or | ||
(3) a foreign language course. | ||
(a-2) Subsection (a-1) does not apply to a course offered | ||
for joint high school and junior college credit to a student as part | ||
of the early college education program established under Section | ||
29.908. | ||
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply | ||
beginning with dual credit courses offered for the 2018 spring | ||
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, 2017. | ||
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