82R1426 KYF-D
By: Phillips H.B. No. 1839
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to excluding a provider of recreational classes that do
not lead to an educational credential from regulation as a career
school or college.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 132.001(1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(1) "Career school or college" means any business
enterprise operated for a profit or on a nonprofit basis that
maintains a place of business within this state or solicits
business within this state, that is not specifically exempted by
this chapter, and:
(A) that offers or maintains a course or courses
of instruction or study as a part of a program of instruction; or
(B) at which place of business [such] a course or
courses of instruction or study as a part of a program of
instruction are available through classroom instruction or by
distance education, or both, to a person for the purpose of training
or preparing the person for a field of endeavor in a business,
trade, technical, or industrial occupation, or for avocational or
personal improvement.
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, 2011.