Bill Text: TX SB498 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to applying credit earned by a student at a general academic teaching institution to an associate's degree at a lower-division institution of higher education previously attended by the student.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB498 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB498-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to applying credit earned by a student at a general academic teaching institution to an associate's degree at a lower-division institution of higher education previously attended by the student.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB498 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB498-Comm_Sub.html
By: Seliger, et al. | S.B. No. 498 | |
(Guillen, Branch, Alonzo, Munoz, Jr.) | ||
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relating to applying credit earned by a student at a general | ||
academic teaching institution to an associate's degree at a | ||
lower-division institution of higher education previously attended | ||
by the student. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 61.833, Education Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) This section applies to a student enrolled in a general | ||
academic teaching institution who: | ||
(1) transferred to the institution from or previously | ||
attended a lower-division institution of higher education; | ||
(2) earned at least 30 credit hours for course work | ||
successfully completed at the lower-division institution of higher | ||
education; and | ||
(3) has earned a cumulative total of at least 66 [ |
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credit hours for course work successfully completed. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Subsection | ||
(b), Section 61.833, Education Code, applies beginning with the | ||
2013 fall semester. A semester or other academic term before the | ||
2013 fall semester is covered by the applicable law as it existed | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. 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. |