Bill Text: TX HB3908 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a pilot program to expand joint credit programs to include certain courses offered by career schools and colleges in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Higher Education [HB3908 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3908-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 3908 | |
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| relating to a pilot program to expand joint credit programs to | ||
| include certain courses offered by career schools and colleges in | ||
| certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 132, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 132.026 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 132.026. JOINT CREDIT PILOT PROGRAM. (a) Subject to | ||
| available funding, the commission, in coordination with the Texas | ||
| Education Agency, shall develop and administer a pilot program | ||
| under which the commission awards grants to career schools and | ||
| colleges that partner with participating public high schools to | ||
| offer joint high school and career school or college credit for | ||
| courses in nursing and applied sciences and technology. | ||
| (b) A public high school is eligible to participate in the | ||
| pilot program only if the school is located in an economically | ||
| disadvantaged and underserved region of the state, as determined by | ||
| the commission for purposes of this section. | ||
| (c) To partner with an eligible high school under the pilot | ||
| program, a career school or college must be located in the same | ||
| county as the high school. | ||
| (d) The commission shall award grants under the pilot | ||
| program from funds appropriated for that purpose and any other | ||
| available funds. The commission may seek and accept gifts, grants, | ||
| and donations to fund the pilot program. | ||
| (e) Not later than December 1, 2016, the commission shall | ||
| submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the | ||
| house of representatives, and the standing legislative committees | ||
| with primary jurisdiction over education a written report on the | ||
| effectiveness of the pilot program and any recommendations for | ||
| legislative or other action. | ||
| (f) The commission shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| (g) This section expires September 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Workforce Commission shall adopt rules | ||
| for the administration of Section 132.026, Education Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, as soon as practicable after this Act takes effect. For | ||
| that purpose, the commission may adopt the initial rules in the | ||
| manner provided by law for emergency rules. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
