Bill Text: TX SB726 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Co-author authorized [SB726 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB726-Introduced.html
| 83R8580 JRJ-D | ||
| By: Paxton | S.B. No. 726 | |
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| relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer | ||
| baccalaureate degree programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 130.0012, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsections (b) and (g) and adding Subsection (g-1) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) The coordinating board shall authorize baccalaureate | ||
| degree programs at: | ||
| (1) each public junior college that previously | ||
| participated in a pilot project to offer baccalaureate degree | ||
| programs; and | ||
| (2) one or more public junior colleges that offer a | ||
| degree program in the field of nursing if, at the time the degree is | ||
| initially offered, the public junior college is located in a | ||
| county: | ||
| (A) with a population greater than 750,000; | ||
| (B) in which all or part of a municipality with a | ||
| population greater than one million is located; and | ||
| (C) that is located adjacent to a county with a | ||
| population greater than two million. | ||
| (g) Except as provided by Subsection (g-1), in [ |
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| recommendations to the legislature relating to state funding for | ||
| public junior colleges, the coordinating board shall recommend that | ||
| a public junior college receive substantially the same state | ||
| support for junior-level and senior-level courses offered under | ||
| this section as that provided to a general academic teaching | ||
| institution for substantially similar courses. In determining the | ||
| contact hours attributable to students enrolled in a junior-level | ||
| or senior-level course offered under this section used to determine | ||
| a public junior college's proportionate share of state | ||
| appropriations under Section 130.003, the coordinating board shall | ||
| weigh those contact hours as necessary to provide the junior | ||
| college the appropriate level of state support to the extent state | ||
| funds for those courses are included in the appropriations. This | ||
| subsection does not prohibit the legislature from directly | ||
| appropriating state funds to support junior-level and senior-level | ||
| courses offered under this section. | ||
| (g-1) A degree program created under Subsection (b)(2) may | ||
| be funded solely by a public junior college's proportionate share | ||
| of state appropriations under Section 130.003, local funds, and | ||
| private sources. This subsection does not require the legislature | ||
| to appropriate state funds to support a degree program created | ||
| under Subsection (b)(2). | ||
| 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. | ||
