| 1 | 1 | | By: West S.B. No. 2210 |
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| 3 | 3 | | |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to the formula funding for public institutions of higher |
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| 7 | 7 | | education for certain credit hours that do not count toward a |
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| 8 | 8 | | degree. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 61.0595, Education Code, |
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| 11 | 11 | | is amended to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (d) The following are not counted for purposes of |
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| 13 | 13 | | determining whether the student has previously earned the number of |
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| 14 | 14 | | semester credit hours specified by Subsection (a): |
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| 15 | 15 | | (1) semester credit hours earned by the student before |
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| 16 | 16 | | receiving a baccalaureate degree that has previously been awarded |
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| 17 | 17 | | to the student; |
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| 18 | 18 | | (2) semester credit hours earned by the student by |
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| 19 | 19 | | examination or under any other procedure by which credit is earned |
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| 20 | 20 | | without registering for a course for which tuition is charged; |
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| 21 | 21 | | (3) credit for a remedial education course, a |
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| 22 | 22 | | technical course, a workforce education course funded according to |
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| 23 | 23 | | contact hours, or another course that does not count toward a degree |
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| 24 | 24 | | program at the institution; [and] |
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| 25 | 25 | | (4) semester credit hours earned by the student at a |
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| 26 | 26 | | private institution or an out-of-state institution; and |
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| 27 | 27 | | (5) in addition to semester credit hours excluded |
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| 28 | 28 | | under another provision of this subsection, not more than 30 |
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| 29 | 29 | | semester credit hours earned through one or more dual credit |
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| 30 | 30 | | courses for which the student received credit toward a high school |
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| 31 | 31 | | diploma, if those courses are identified by the board as |
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| 32 | 32 | | lower-division courses appropriate for general academic transfer |
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| 33 | 33 | | between institutions of higher education. |
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| 34 | 34 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section |
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| 35 | 35 | | 61.0595, Education Code, applies beginning with the funding |
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| 36 | 36 | | recommendations made under Section 61.059, Education Code, for the |
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| 37 | 37 | | 2011-2012 academic year. |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 39 | 39 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 40 | 40 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 41 | 41 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 42 | 42 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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