Bill Text: TX HB3568 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an occupational and life skills associate degree program offered by the Lone Star College System District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Referred to Higher Education [HB3568 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3568-Introduced.html
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By: Oliverson | H.B. No. 3568 |
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relating to an occupational and life skills associate degree | ||
program offered by the Lone Star College System District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 130.0105 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 130.0105. OCCUPATIONAL AND LIFE SKILLS ASSOCIATE | ||
DEGREE PROGRAM. (a) The governing board of the Lone Star College | ||
System District may establish an occupational and life skills | ||
associate degree program at each junior college in the district. | ||
(b) An occupational and life skills associate degree | ||
program established at a junior college under this section must | ||
require a student to successfully complete: | ||
(1) the junior college's core curriculum adopted under | ||
Section 61.822(b); and | ||
(2) after completion of the core curriculum under | ||
Subdivision (1), the courses selected by the student in the | ||
student's degree plan. | ||
(c) The coordinating board shall adopt rules as necessary | ||
for the administration of this section. | ||
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, 2017. |