Bill Text: TX SB708 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to certain credentials of value offered by general academic teaching institutions as part of a baccalaureate degree program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-01 - Referred to s/c on Higher Education by Pres [SB708 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB708-Introduced.html
| 88R4096 CXP-F | ||
| By: LaMantia | S.B. No. 708 | |
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| relating to certain credentials of value offered by general | ||
| academic teaching institutions as part of a baccalaureate degree | ||
| program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.05123 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.05123. COURSE CREDIT TOWARD BACCALAUREATE DEGREE | ||
| PROGRAM FOR COMPLETION OF CERTAIN WORK-BASED CREDENTIALS OF VALUE. | ||
| (a) Subject to board approval, a general academic teaching | ||
| institution may enter into an agreement with a public or private | ||
| entity to offer as part of a baccalaureate degree program at the | ||
| institution a work-based learning credential of value in a high | ||
| demand, high growth industry leading to quality career | ||
| opportunities that a student may elect to complete in satisfaction | ||
| of certain required coursework under this degree program. | ||
| (b) Section 61.0512(g) does not apply to a credential of | ||
| value offered by a general academic teaching institution under this | ||
| section. | ||
| (c) The board in consultation with the Texas Workforce | ||
| Commission shall adopt rules for the administration of this | ||
| section, including rules for determining: | ||
| (1) whether a work-based credential of value qualifies | ||
| to be offered as a part of a baccalaureate degree program under this | ||
| section; and | ||
| (2) the required coursework for which a credential of | ||
| value offered under this section may be substituted. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
| shall adopt rules as required by Section 61.05123(c), Education | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, as soon as practicable following the | ||
| effective date of this Act. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
