Bill Text: TX SB1176 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the definition of a postsecondary program in regard to non-baccalaureate career schools and colleges.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB1176 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1176-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Jackson S.B. No. 1176
(In the Senate - Filed March 4, 2011; March 16, 2011, read
first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
March 28, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 28, 2011,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1176 By: Jackson

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the definition of a postsecondary program in regard to
non-baccalaureate career schools and colleges.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 132.001, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subdivision (15) to read as follows:
(15) "Postsecondary program" means a program that
requires a student to have a high school diploma or high school
equivalency certificate, or requires that the person be beyond the
age of compulsory education. A program of instruction in yoga or
that trains persons to teach yoga is not considered a postsecondary
program.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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