Bill Text: TX SB38 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of private postsecondary educational institutions and private career schools and colleges in the higher education accountability system of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-24 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB38 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB38-Engrossed.html
By: Zaffirini, Davis | S.B. No. 38 |
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relating to the inclusion of certain private postsecondary | ||
educational institutions and career schools and colleges in the | ||
higher education accountability system of the Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.0904, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.0904. REVIEW OF INSTITUTIONAL GROUPINGS. (a) At | ||
least once every 10 years, the board shall conduct a review of the | ||
institutional groupings under the board's higher education | ||
accountability system, including a review of the criteria for and | ||
definitions assigned to those groupings. | ||
(b) The board shall include within the board's higher | ||
education accountability system any for-profit private | ||
postsecondary educational institutions or for-profit career | ||
schools and colleges in this state that offer degree programs. | ||
Regardless of whether the board is conducting a periodic review of | ||
institutional groupings as required by Subsection (a), the board | ||
shall determine whether to create one or more separate | ||
institutional groupings for entities to which this subsection | ||
applies. In implementing this subsection, the board shall: | ||
(1) consult with affected private postsecondary | ||
educational institutions and career schools and colleges regarding | ||
the imposition of reporting requirements on those entities; and | ||
(2) adopt rules that clearly define the types and | ||
amounts of information to be reported to the board. | ||
(c) In advance of each regular session of the legislature, | ||
the board shall report to each standing legislative committee with | ||
primary jurisdiction over higher education regarding any entities | ||
to which Subsection (b) applies that do not participate in the | ||
board's higher education accountability system as provided by that | ||
subsection. | ||
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. |