Bill Text: TX SB1441 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board comparing postsecondary educational outcomes for certain traditional and nontraditional students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1441 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1441-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board comparing postsecondary educational outcomes for certain traditional and nontraditional students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1441 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1441-Comm_Sub.html
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1441 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 4, 2019; March 14, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
May 2, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
Nays 0; May 2, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board comparing postsecondary educational outcomes for certain | ||
traditional and nontraditional students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 61.06692 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.06692. STUDY COMPARING POSTSECONDARY EDUCATIONAL | ||
OUTCOMES FOR CERTAIN TRADITIONAL AND NONTRADITIONAL STUDENTS. | ||
(a) The board shall conduct a study comparing postsecondary | ||
educational outcomes for students enrolled at institutions of | ||
higher education who received a high school diploma and students | ||
enrolled at those institutions who received a high school | ||
equivalency certificate, disaggregated by the high school | ||
equivalency examination completed. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1, 2020, the board shall submit | ||
to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the | ||
house of representatives a report on the results of the study and | ||
any recommendations for legislative or other action. | ||
(c) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
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, 2019. | ||
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