Bill Text: TX SB31 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to formula funding for certain semester credit hours earned for dual course credit.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB31 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB31-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to formula funding for certain semester credit hours earned for dual course credit.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB31 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB31-Engrossed.html
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 31 |
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relating to formula funding for certain semester credit hours | ||
earned for dual course credit. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.059, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (p) and (q) to read as follows: | ||
(p) In its instruction and operations formula applicable to | ||
an institution of higher education, the board may not include any | ||
semester credit hours earned for dual course credit by a high school | ||
student for high school and college credit at the institution | ||
unless those credit hours are earned through any of the following: | ||
(1) a course in the core curriculum of the institution | ||
providing course credit; | ||
(2) a career and technical education course that | ||
applies to any certificate or associate's degree offered by the | ||
institution providing course credit; or | ||
(3) a foreign language course. | ||
(q) Subsection (p) does not apply to a course completed by a | ||
student as part of the early college education program established | ||
under Section 29.908. | ||
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, 2013. |