Bill Text: TX SB31 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to formula funding for certain semester credit hours earned for dual course credit.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB31 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB31-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 31 | ||
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| relating to formula funding for certain semester credit hours | ||
| earned for dual course credit. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 61.059, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (p) and (q) to read as follows: | ||
| (p) In its instruction and operations formula applicable to | ||
| an institution of higher education, the board may not include any | ||
| semester credit hours earned for dual course credit by a high school | ||
| student for high school and college credit at the institution | ||
| unless those credit hours are earned through any of the following: | ||
| (1) a course in the core curriculum of the institution | ||
| providing course credit; | ||
| (2) a career and technical education course that | ||
| applies to any certificate or associate's degree offered by the | ||
| institution providing course credit; or | ||
| (3) a foreign language course. | ||
| (q) Subsection (p) does not apply to a course completed by a | ||
| student as part of the early college education program established | ||
| under Section 29.908. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 31 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 21, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 31 passed the House on | ||
| May 20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
