82R8101 JRJ-D
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1728
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement that developmental coursework required
for entering undergraduate students at four-year public
institutions of higher education be completed at a public junior
college.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.3062, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (i-2) and amending Subsections (l) and (m) to
read as follows:
(i-2) A general academic teaching institution that refers a
student to developmental coursework under Subsection (i) must
require the student, before enrolling in any coursework at the
institution, to complete the developmental coursework at a public
junior college rather than at the institution. If the student was
admitted to the general academic teaching institution under
Subchapter U, the student is eligible to enroll in the institution
when the student successfully completes the developmental
coursework.
(l) The legislature shall appropriate money to public
junior colleges, public technical institutes, and public state
colleges for approved non-degree-credit developmental courses,
except that legislative appropriations may not be used for
developmental coursework taken by a student in excess of[:
[(1) 18 semester credit hours, for a general academic
teaching institution; and
[(2)] 27 semester [credit] hours[, for a public junior
college, public technical institute, or public state college].
(m) The board may develop formulas to supplement the funding
of developmental academic programs by institutions of higher
education other than general academic teaching institutions,
including formulas for supplementing the funding of
non-course-based programs. The board may develop a performance
funding formula by which those institutions may receive additional
funding for each student who completes the Success Initiative
established under this section and then successfully completes
college coursework. The legislature may appropriate the money
required to provide the additional funding under those formulas.
SECTION 2. A general academic teaching institution shall
transfer to the applicable public junior college any funding
received by the institution in the state fiscal biennium ending
August 31, 2013, for services rendered by the public junior college
under Section 51.3062(i-2), Education Code, as added by this Act,
to a student enrolled in the general academic teaching institution.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with entering undergraduate students at general academic
teaching institutions for the 2012 fall semester. A student who
enters a general academic teaching institution before the 2012 fall
semester is covered by the law in effect immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.