By: West S.B. No. 2210
(In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2009; March 31, 2009, read
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
April 16, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 0; April 16, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the formula funding for public institutions of higher
education for certain credit hours that do not count toward a
degree.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 61.0595, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(d) The following are not counted for purposes of
determining whether the student has previously earned the number of
semester credit hours specified by Subsection (a):
(1) semester credit hours earned by the student before
receiving a baccalaureate degree that has previously been awarded
to the student;
(2) semester credit hours earned by the student by
examination or under any other procedure by which credit is earned
without registering for a course for which tuition is charged;
(3) credit for a remedial education course, a
technical course, a workforce education course funded according to
contact hours, or another course that does not count toward a degree
program at the institution; [and]
(4) semester credit hours earned by the student at a
private institution or an out-of-state institution; and
(5) in addition to semester credit hours excluded
under another provision of this subsection, not more than 30
semester credit hours earned through one or more dual credit
courses for which the student received credit toward a high school
diploma, if those courses are identified by the board as
lower-division courses appropriate for general academic transfer
between institutions of higher education.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
61.0595, Education Code, applies beginning with the funding
recommendations made under Section 61.059, Education Code, for the
2011-2012 academic year.
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, 2009.
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