Bill Text: TX SB1092 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to creating a pilot project to reduce the need for developmental education required for certain students entering higher education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-16 - Referred to Education [SB1092 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1092-Introduced.html
  82R6398 KYF-D
 
  By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 1092
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to creating a pilot project to reduce the need for
  developmental education required for certain students entering
  higher education.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter M, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 39.417 to read as follows:
         Sec. 39.417.  COLLEGE READINESS PILOT PROJECT. (a) Not
  later than January 1, 2012, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
  Board shall establish a pilot project to provide funding and
  support to institutions of higher education to develop programs for
  early intervention to prepare high school students for academic
  skills assessments used to determine a student's readiness to
  enroll in freshman-level academic course work at an institution of
  higher education.
         (b)  An institution of higher education shall apply to the
  coordinating board to participate in the pilot project. The
  coordinating board shall select not more than three institutions of
  higher education to participate based on:
               (1)  the merit of the institution's proposed program;
               (2)  the number of students to be served by the program;
               (3)  the remediation or developmental needs of the
  community served by the program; and
               (4)  other criteria as determined by the coordinating
  board.
         (c)  The pilot project may be funded by appropriations, by
  gifts, grants, and donations, and by any other funds the
  coordinating board obtains, including federal funds, for the pilot
  project.
         (d)  Not later than January 1 of each odd-numbered year, the
  coordinating board shall report to the governor and to the chair of
  each standing committee of each house of the legislature with
  jurisdiction over education regarding:
               (1)  the effectiveness of programs funded under the
  pilot project established by this section in minimizing the need
  for developmental education; and
               (2)  recommendations regarding implementing similar
  programs at other institutions of higher education.
         (e)  This section expires January 1, 2017.
         SECTION 2.  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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