Bill Text: TX SB1730 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed


Bill Title: Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to create a tool to allow prospective students to compare general academic teaching institutions by certain criteria.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-24 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1730 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1730-Engrossed.html
 
 
  By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1730
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  to create a tool to allow prospective students to compare general
  academic teaching institutions by certain criteria.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 61.09021 to read as follows:
         Sec. 61.09021.  COMPARISON TOOL. (a)  The board shall make
  available to the public on the board's Internet website a search
  tool that allows a person to compare general academic teaching
  institutions that meet certain criteria selected by the person,
  including offering a particular major or program of study.
         (b)  The comparison tool required under this section must:
               (1)  be accessible from the board's Internet website;
               (2)  allow a user to identify general academic teaching
  institutions according to selection criteria as determined by the
  board; and
               (3)  be accessible to the public without requiring
  registration or use of a user name, password, or other user
  identification.
         (c)  The comparison tool required under this section must
  generate a comparison chart in a grid format that:
               (1)  lists the general academic teaching institutions
  that match a user's search criteria; and
               (2)  provides information for each institution listed
  that the board has determined would aid a prospective student in
  evaluating the institution.
         (d)  The Internet page displaying the comparison chart must
  include a link to the Internet website of the Texas Workforce
  Commission.
         (e)  To the extent practicable, the information provided
  under Subsection (c) must consist of information that a general
  academic teaching institution is required to report to the board
  under another provision of law, including board rule.
         (f)  Each general academic teaching institution shall
  provide to the board the information to be provided under
  Subsection (c) not later than October 1, or a date determined by the
  board, of each year.  The board shall update the comparison tool as
  soon as practicable after receiving information from each
  institution.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than February 1, 2013, the Texas Higher
  Education Coordinating Board shall create and post on the board's
  Internet website the comparison tool required by Section 61.09021,
  Education Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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