Bill Text: TX SB2411 | 2019-2020 | 86th 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 (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Higher Education [SB2411 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2411-Introduced.html
| 2019S0393-T 03/08/19 | ||
| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 2411 | |
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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 130.306, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsections [ |
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| (d), a public junior college offering a baccalaureate degree | ||
| program under this subchapter may not offer more than three | ||
| baccalaureate degree programs at any time. | ||
| (d) A public junior college offering a baccalaureate degree | ||
| program under this subchapter that is located in a county with a | ||
| population of more than 1.8 million and that is located within 180 | ||
| miles of the Texas-Mexico border may not offer more than six | ||
| baccalaureate degree programs at any time. | ||
| 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. | ||
