Bill Text: TX SB502 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring certain institutions of higher education to issue reports on the transferability of credit.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB502 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB502-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 502 |
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relating to requiring certain institutions of higher education to | ||
issue reports on the transferability of credit. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Sections 51.400, 51.4033, and 51.4034 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 51.400. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
(1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board. | ||
(2) "General academic teaching institution," | ||
"institution of higher education," and "public junior college" have | ||
the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
Sec. 51.4033. REPORT OF NONTRANSFERABLE CREDIT. (a) Not | ||
later than March 1 of each year and in the form prescribed by the | ||
coordinating board, each general academic teaching institution | ||
shall provide to the coordinating board and the legislature a | ||
report describing any courses in the Lower-Division Academic Course | ||
Guide Manual or its successor adopted by the coordinating board for | ||
which a student who transfers to the institution from another | ||
institution of higher education is not granted: | ||
(1) academic credit at the receiving institution; or | ||
(2) if the student has declared a major and has not | ||
changed majors, academic credit toward the student's major at the | ||
receiving institution. | ||
(b) A report required by this section must indicate: | ||
(1) the course name and type; | ||
(2) which institution of higher education provided | ||
academic credit for the course; and | ||
(3) the reason why the receiving institution did not | ||
grant academic credit for the course as described by Subsection | ||
(a). | ||
Sec. 51.4034. REPORT OF COURSES TAKEN AT JUNIOR COLLEGES. | ||
(a) Not later than March 1 of each year and in the form prescribed | ||
by the coordinating board, each public junior college shall provide | ||
to the coordinating board and the legislature a report on courses | ||
taken by students who, during the preceding academic year, | ||
transferred to a general academic teaching institution or earned an | ||
associate degree at the college. | ||
(b) A report required by this section must include the total | ||
number of: | ||
(1) courses attempted and completed at the college, | ||
including the total number of semester credit hours for those | ||
courses, disaggregated by whether the course is in: | ||
(A) the Workforce Education Course Manual or its | ||
successor adopted by the coordinating board; or | ||
(B) the Lower-Division Academic Course Guide | ||
Manual or its successor adopted by the coordinating board; | ||
(2) courses attempted and completed at the college | ||
that are not in the recommended core curriculum developed by the | ||
coordinating board under Section 61.822; and | ||
(3) dual credit courses, including courses for joint | ||
high school and junior college credit under Section 130.008, | ||
attempted and completed at the college. | ||
SECTION 2. Each public institution of higher education | ||
required to submit a report under Section 51.4033 or 51.4034, | ||
Education Code, as added by this Act, shall submit the first report | ||
not later than March 1, 2021. | ||
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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 502 passed the Senate on | ||
April 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 24, 2019, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 502 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, | ||
Nays 1, two present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |