Bill Text: TX SB414 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a study and report regarding authorizing certain public junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs to address regional workforce needs.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB414 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB414-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 414 | ||
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| relating to a study and report regarding authorizing certain public | ||
| junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs to address | ||
| regional workforce needs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 130.0013 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 130.0013. STUDY AND REPORT; BACCALAUREATE DEGREE | ||
| PROGRAMS AUTHORITY. (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
| Board shall, using existing funds, conduct a study of regional | ||
| workforce needs in this state to determine the regions of the state | ||
| that would benefit from the authorization of baccalaureate degree | ||
| programs in the field of nursing and in the field of applied | ||
| sciences at public junior colleges serving the region and | ||
| appropriate metrics for determining whether a public junior college | ||
| should offer those degree programs. In conducting its study, the | ||
| coordinating board shall consult with at least one representative | ||
| of each of the following: | ||
| (1) four-year institutions of higher education; | ||
| (2) two-year institutions of higher education; | ||
| (3) regional businesses; | ||
| (4) professional associations; and | ||
| (5) any other entity the commissioner of higher | ||
| education considers appropriate. | ||
| (b) Not later than August 1, 2014, the coordinating board | ||
| shall submit to each legislative standing committee with primary | ||
| jurisdiction over higher education the results of its study under | ||
| this section and recommendations for legislative or other action. | ||
| (c) This section expires September 1, 2015. | ||
| 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. 414 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 9, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that the | ||
| Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2013, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 414 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 143, | ||
| Nays 5, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
