Bill Text: TX SB1845 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the development of transferable degree or certificate program curricula for which qualified veterans or military service members may be awarded course credit based on military service.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-20 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1845 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1845-Comm_Sub.html
By: Campbell, et al. | S.B. No. 1845 | |
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relating to the development of transferable degree or certificate | ||
program curricula for which qualified veterans or military service | ||
members may be awarded course credit based on military service. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter S, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 61.835 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.835. TRANSFERABLE COLLEGE CREDIT FOR HEROES | ||
CURRICULA. (a) To promote the purposes of the College Credit for | ||
Heroes program established under Section 302.0031, Labor Code, the | ||
board, in consultation with the Texas Workforce Commission, the | ||
Texas Veterans Commission, and institutions of higher education, | ||
shall: | ||
(1) develop standardized curricula within degree and | ||
certificate programs commonly offered by institutions of higher | ||
education toward which qualified veterans or military service | ||
members may be awarded appropriate academic credit for experience, | ||
education, and training earned during military service; and | ||
(2) require the transferability between institutions | ||
of higher education of course credit for curricula developed under | ||
this section that is awarded to qualified veterans or military | ||
service members. | ||
(b) The board shall adopt rules for the administration of | ||
this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
shall adopt the initial rules required by Section 61.835, Education | ||
Code, as added by this Act, not later than May 1, 2018. | ||
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, 2017. |