Bill Text: TX SB1730 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1730 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2011; March 23, 2011, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
April 19, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 19, 2011, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1730 | By: Zaffirini |
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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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