Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas House Bill HB100 Compare Versions

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1	1	81R1235 KJM-D
2	2	By: Brown of Brazos H.B. No. 100
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to curriculum requirements in political science and
8	8	American history at institutions of higher education.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 51.301(a), Education Code, is amended to
11	11	read as follows:
12	12	(a) Every college and university receiving state support or
13	13	state aid from public funds shall give a course of instruction in
14	14	government or political science which includes consideration of the
15	15	Constitution of the United States and the constitutions of the
16	16	states, with special emphasis on that of Texas. This course shall
17	17	have a credit value of not less than three [six] semester hours or
18	18	its equivalent. Except as provided by Subsection (c), a college or
19	19	university receiving state support or state aid from public funds
20	20	may not grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic
21	21	certificate to any person unless the person has credit for such a
22	22	course. The college or university may determine that a student has
23	23	satisfied this requirement in whole or in part on the basis of
24	24	credit granted to the student by the college or university for a
25	25	substantially equivalent course completed at another accredited
26	26	college or university or on the basis of the student's successful
27	27	completion of an advanced standing examination administered on the
28	28	conditions and under the circumstances common for the college or
29	29	university's advanced standing examinations. The college or
30	30	university may grant as much as three semester hours of credit or
31	31	its equivalent toward satisfaction of this requirement for
32	32	substantially equivalent work completed by the student in the
33	33	program of an approved senior R.O.T.C. unit.
34	34	SECTION 2. Section 51.302(b), Education Code, is amended to
35	35	read as follows:
36	36	(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a college or
37	37	university receiving state support or state aid from public funds
38	38	may not grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic
39	39	certificate to any person unless the person has credit for three
40	40	[six] semester hours or its equivalent in American History. A
41	41	student is entitled to submit as much as three semester hours of
42	42	credit or its equivalent in Texas History toward [in partial]
43	43	satisfaction of this requirement. The college or university may
44	44	determine that a student has satisfied this requirement in whole or
45	45	part on the basis of credit granted to the student by the college or
46	46	university for a substantially equivalent course completed at
47	47	another accredited college or university, or on the basis of the
48	48	student's successful completion of an advanced standing
49	49	examination administered on the conditions and under the
50	50	circumstances common for the college or university's advanced
51	51	standing examinations. The college or university may grant as much
52	52	as three semester hours of credit or its equivalent toward
53	53	satisfaction of this requirement for substantially equivalent work
54	54	completed by a student in the program of an approved senior R.O.T.C.
55	55	unit.
56	56	SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections
57	57	51.301(a) and 51.302(b), Education Code, apply only to the
58	58	curriculum requirements for a degree or certificate awarded by an
59	59	institution of higher education on or after the effective date of
60	60	this Act. The curriculum requirements for a degree or certificate
61	61	awarded by an institution of higher education before the effective
62	62	date of this Act are governed by the law in effect immediately
63	63	before that date, and the former law is continued in effect for that
64	64	purpose.
65	65	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.